John Wilwol[Lucien and Toulouse-Lautrec] make for a splendid dynamic duo. Lucien is a starry-eyed romantic for whom stories about famous paintings "were the fairy tales of his childhood," while Toulouse-Lautrec, when he's not with a French prostitute, is an unfailingly loyal comic hero…Moore's work has tended to fall into what one critic called the "zonked-out comic horror" category, but Sacre Bleu is different. Let's call it a historical comedy, with an emphasis on the comedy. There's even a soupcon of art criticism…
—The Washington Post
The Oregonian (Portland)"[A] marvelous, tongue-in-cheek, mythical explanation of the artistic urge... brought vividly to life."
Entertainment Weekly"Sacré Bleu is a consistently compelling blend of love story, mystery, and 'what if?' art history lesson.