Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I loved almost every word of this script. With so much other great writing under his belt, I'm not sure how Victor Levin is able to remain in his skin. Even the ordinary words are placed like jewels in the sky. Most of the voice-over narrative read like a great literary novel, as it should. Certain other parts were also beyond well-done, for instance, the "good-bye" letter from Arielle. I wouldn't change a word.However, the casting did not reach to touch what the words were attempting to make flesh. The main character, Brian Bloom, was too young or too underwhelming or too lacking in passion to meet the expectations and hopes I had for his character; the love interets, Arielle Pierpont, was too predictable of a classic, standard-issue French lover to be believed as someone who would throw her entire life away, to give her heart to such a young man. Both needed something extra or different to create the needed chemistry for them to be sympathetic to the viewer--Brian to be more outwardly passionate and perhaps mature, Arielle to be covertly needier and quirkier than a collected dipomat's wife might be. I stayed with them in their affair, but more for what I had hoped for them than what they actually shared. For any romantic movie, the lovers must match. For this film, the lovers needed not just match, but create an epic type of passion that drags the viewer in an causes the viewer to be just as heartbroken, just as destroyed as the characters themselves. And, yes, the parting destroyed him and her both. Yes, time and a more mature view of life gave them both the ability to embrace the gift they had for that moment of time. But that gratitude could have been much greater if the on-screen passion of the actors and the desire of the characters themselves were also splashed across the screen with a little more of a Jackson Pollack type of abandon. 'If the casting and direction were a bit more senstive, this could have been another Dr. Zhivago but with less production costs.Would I watch it again? Sure! But only if it were a rainy day, I had plenty of popcorn, and I could share it with a woman I had a secret crush on.

3/16/17. I wanted to watch this because I like Anton Yelchin. The fact he died so young from a tragic accident made me want to catch everything he did. Sadly, Yelchin came off as being somewhat awkward in this somewhat implausible romance. Perhaps people living in such circles act this way, but just seemed a bit unrealistic.

Everything in this Movie is perfect...from begin to End.Pure romance and feelings, first-class drama, stunning power and atmospheric magnetism of relations! Many thanks to the actors, the director (him and as a screenwriter), the cameraman, the composer/sound technician, the entire staff who made this magnificent creation! For the sake of such beautiful Movies (with big letter!), people still want to watch Hollywood movies. Unfortunately, all less and less often..And RIP Antosha! You played here your best role in life, unfortunately, too short.

Lately I watched 5 to 7 movie on Netflix. I was very tired and was looking for a movie to relax and enjoy dinner time before I go to sleep. And 5 to 7 played its role very well in that respect. It's a perfect movie for such need. As you can see in the trailer it is a story based on very unusual idea of relationship based on two hour meeting per day. Lot of questions comes into your mind while watching this movie making you deny this idea presented in the here but remember that this is just a story telling. And this movie has this consistent soothing and loving tone which keep suppressing those thoughts and make you enjoy the story. Anton & Bérénice played the leading characters amazingly. Anton played a role of young American writer fighting to understand and be part of this unusual relationship. He was expected to be a harmless person in love and trying to be as ethical as possible. Bérénice played a role of older married french women who is charming enough to make you forget about everything and just be in love with her. Their costumes were chosen very nicely to give this movie both french & American touch. Some scenes shows you the dreamy lights of love in a city. Last but not the least this movie also capture the joy of friendship through an unrealistic character. Overall it was a perfectly balanced movie to watch beside your loved ones and I really enjoyed it.