"Philippe Grandrieux's La vie nouvelle, with its schizophrenic camera and piercing audio frequency, provokes a dangerous sensation. Like his previous Sombre, La vie nouvelle pulsates like a tremor, as if we're entering a universe after some unnamed, unmentioned nuclear disaster... Watching the film is an absolutely unnerving undertaking, nearly impossible to endure without a lump in one's throat. It's a frightening vision of a slightly recognizable hell, where tainted innocence attempts to latch onto its infected cognate in hopes to reclaim what they know cannot be salvaged in themselves." - Joe Bowman, Fin de cinema