CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

relwes What a truly dismal film this is. It's a disastrous nightmare of a film, I completely hated it. I admit some of the cinematography is quite beautiful (though less than breathtaking). But, to get to the point (which this film never does), it's boring. It's really boring. Quite frankly it's more boring than watching a blank screen for 90 minutes - is that all? It seemed three times as long. Nothing happens at all: there's no plot, no dialogue, there's nothing to the characters. It's just a string of very very long scenes in which nothing happens: the heroes are stuck in traffic for ages, they go out and have a totally boring dinner, and so on. Even the sex is profoundly boring. There are literally about 20 words spoken during the whole film, and those are all of such a studied banality as to almost (but not) make them funny.Why would anyone make a film like this? Well I suppose that the idea was to make a film illustrating the boring and unfulfilling lives that many lonely people live in big cities. If that is the aim of the film, then there's no question that it succeeds, but surely there must be a more imaginative way of doing it than by making such a boring and unfulfilling film. It seems as if the director believed that the inclusion of anything which wasn't bowel-achingly tedious (an interesting character for instance, maybe the odd thought-provoking bit of dialogue, the occasional bit of action, or even (God forbid) some plot worth speaking of) would constitute a breach of principle. So such conventional contrivances are rejected, and we're left with a blow by blow account of two deeply uninteresting silent people being stuck in traffic. Well thank you for the insight into the human condition, but I've learned more about life, and had a far more entertaining time, clipping my toenails.

Tim Lockwood After the disappointment of Trouble Everyday (just tell me what that one was all about?) I was hoping for a return to form from Denis after the beguiling and quite beautiful Beau travail. The film starts well with a series of stunning shots of Paris at dusk. The story unfolds at first interestingly enough as Laure finds herself trapped in Paris, slightly uncertain of her future and then, hey, she jumps into bed with a stranger and discovers that life is going to be just great with her partner and is reborn as she runs down the empty Paris streets. OK, so its it a little more complex than that, but really not by much. It seems quite difficult to identify with Laure, Denis clearly likes her as a character but she appears too enigmatic to care for. Jean represents a clichéd image of Gallic masculinity that seems miles away from the complexities of Galoup in in Beau Travail. In the end it's just a look at bourgeois angst that left me completely bored.

R. Nauta (rudymovie) This is more a comment on what I have read above, here, then on the film itself. However, to start with the film: I enjoyed it deeply, mostly as a kind of cinematographic painting, rather than as a story.The shooting is sometimes breathtaking, the camera very close upon the actors. Even the love scenes,in general often boring, are lifted to a higher level of "beauty" by this method. Associations, minds wandering, it is all there.... and the locations are more French, than most French people will realize. That hotel room, as a tourist I have seen so many run down hotel rooms, these views looked very familiar. Now my comments on the negative criticisms above: of course dozing away in a little "nap" is understandable . I dozed away for 5 minutes too, during the opening scenes in the traffic jam. But the lack of understanding of different kind of film making, of which this is a fine example, disturbs me. Poor movie-goers, not knowing any better, maybe too much influenced by the monopoly of Hollywood blockbuster and video production? What a pity. Or is it my age, having developed my taste in cinema in the 1970s , when it was normal to go and see a Fellini, Chabrol, or a Fassbinder around the corner here....And the Jaws and Rambo(s)were not so overexposed as a hype as they would now be.(see the Matrix-III drama). Be glad this is still made. Anywhere.

arturobandini I'm stunned that there aren't better user reviews for this gorgeous, erotic film. Boring? Hardly. Ever see Hitchcock's "Rear Window" or Godard's "Weekend"? Great drama can exist in a traffic jam, behind sealed windows...if you're willing to watch others instead of diddling with your makeup or cel phone. Seriously, I wouldn't expect this movie to appeal to the "Joe Millionaire" crowd, but whatever happened to respect for the non-mainstream? For movies that refuse to follow formula? And why are so many amateur reviewers incapable of recognizing a diamond in the rough? The fact that so much in this movie is communicated without dialogue - the true test of cinema - puts in heads-and-tails above just about every American movie I've seen lately. Besides, this is one hot date movie!