"SEE YOU UP THERE is, more than anything, a reverberant slap on the face of militarism, warmongering and the patriarchal Establishment. Edouard wastes all his life rebelling against his distant, uncaring father, the fount of all his suffering and misery, all mounts to a reunion that culminates with a tearful Marcel finally embracing his long-lost son, a sentimentally powerful moment, only to be trounced by Edouard's final leap of rebellion, a beatific farewell and a thoroughgoing rebuff to that belated paternal remorse and elation, Marcel doesn't deserve salvation and Edouard utilizes himself as a final blow to ascertain that doesn't happen. Plus, by arranging Albert as the film's narrator and POV, the film evokes a strong Proustian sensibility in its seriocomic vein."
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