"Jeanne Balibar interpreta Barbara. Jeanne Balibar interpreta a atriz Brigitte que vive Barbara numa cinebiografia da cantora francesa comandada por Yves Zand. Yves Zand que é interpretado por Mathieu Amalric, diretor de Barbara. A instigante confusão não está só na sinopse, é a alma do filme, alucinante ode à imersão na personagem e, acima de tudo, à Barbara."
"In Barbara, the process of filmmaking is shown to be a nesting series of shells that allow one to be simultaneously freed and lost. This understanding evinces Amalric’s kinship with similarly auto-critical collaborators, such as Alain Resnais, as well as with Barbara herself, who fashioned songs as monuments to her own alternately transcendent and imprisoning self-awareness."
"Jeanne Balibar is cast in the double role of the celebrated singer and an actor playing her in a haunting performance that harks back to Amalric’s burlesque study On Tour."
— Guy Lodge de The Guardian