5 to 7 is a 2014 American romantic film written and directed by Victor Levin and starring Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, Glenn Close and Eric Stoltz.

Brian Bloom (Anton Yelchin), a struggling 24-year-old writer in New York City, meets a 33-year-old French woman named Arielle Pierpont (Bérénice Marlohe).

Upon learning that she is an older, married mother of two, Sam tells Brian that he disapproves of the relationship, while Arlene accepts that they love each other despite the circumstances.

When Brian is invited to a New Yorker ceremony to receive an award for one of his short stories, he is joined by Arielle, Valéry, Jane, and his parents.

Valéry shows up at Brian's apartment that night, slapping him and expressing anger at his betrayal of the rules and boundaries of an open marriage.

[4] The project remained in development for seven years due to difficulties in finding appropriately "box office-eligible" actors whose schedules lined up.

[1] The budget was primarily financed by Demarest Films, with additional funding from private investors including Sam Englebardt, David Greathouse and Bill Johnson.

[1] Levin and Potier decided to use minimalistic wide shots and long takes to avoid "reminding the audience that it's a movie" with unnecessary cuts.

[4] He hired Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans to compose the film's score, which consisted of two main melodies, one a waltz and the other a more classical theme.

The site's consensus states: "5 to 7 too often settles for rom-com clichés, but they're offset by its charming stars, sensitive direction, and a deceptively smart screenplay.

He felt that 5 to 7 was "in that rare category of romantic drama that seems aimed for a male audience", comparing Yelchin's role to that of Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga.

[21] Variety critic Peter Debruge commended Levin for his "earnest, heart-on-his-sleeve approach", referring to the film as "courageously sentimental in an age of irony".

[23] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times found the film "charm[ing]" in spite of what it lacked in plot and character development.

He praised Marlohe's performance and the comic relief provided by "the oddly but perfectly cast Glenn Close and Frank Langella".

[25] The New York Times' chief film critic Manohla Dargis found the plot of 5 to 7 to be inauthentic and the characters "unpersuasive".

She criticized Marlohe's "opaque, physically stiff" performance and the similarities of the film to Woody Allen's Manhattan-based works.

He found the premise implausible and melodramatic and Brian's character uninteresting and two-dimensional, a stand-in for "an adolescent male fantasy".