One of my all time favorites.

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From my favorite movies..

Best movie ever!

Even the fantastic Juliette Binoche cannot save this too jazzy editorial self stimulated contemporary cotton eye mixture of noir bluff meets arty intentions without a heart or a handshake Jeez, I need a beer and a good nights sleepSome times expectations just ruins your evening. Putting the DVD into the mac was my biggest mistake tonight.The story never evolved. The plot was not visible. There was no master plan. Only a director trying to make an impression on other directors, pure jazz without a boiling kettle…My advice: buy some popcorn and watch Kieslowski

As a huge film buff I watch a little of absolutely everything. I have over 700 reviews under my belt in about three years and it takes something absolutely disastrous for me not to sit through and torture myself for the sake of being able to review the movie for you fine readers but I apologize here and now. I can't do it...I can't sit through another living second of Quelques jours en septembre (A few Days in September), it might be literally the most boring piece of so called film I have ever seen in my life. When I picked it up in my local Blockbuster it was a little pricey but when I read the back, I thought it sounded like something really interesting, thrilling and very intelligent so I paid the extra and got it...so glad I did ((cough cough)) I know that everybody has their own likes and dislikes and I knew reading other reviews that people would like it but it always blows my mind to actually see it in print. People actually referred to this as THRILLING? EXCITING? DARK? DISTURBING? What in the hell?!?! Thrilling? There was nothing thrilling, there was no action whatsoever save for a brief bloody killing in the first ten minutes and then it was another solid hour of talking, and traveling and a mish mashed story that is literally in both English and French which is fine but the story was awful. Spies yes. Intrigue. NO.The performances aren't entirely a write off. Juliette Binoche is decent as a cocky, sneaky spy of some kind. A lot of times her performance comes across as a little bit creepy and you wonder what she knows that you don't. However she is lovely and does an okay job in a terrible movie. John Turturro, who is an amazing multi talented actor is just ludicrous and ridiculous as some sort of Assassin out to kill someone for some reason, and find something somewhere. Literally I have no idea. Plus every once in awhile he calls his shrink and talks to him about things that bother him. What a waste of talent. His role is unredeemable. Sara Forestier probably gives one of the best performances as snarly, sarcastic Orlando who is brought on this trip after her father wants her brought to him somewhere. She gives a good solid performance in an otherwise disastrous movie and has good chemistry with Binoche which is remarkable given the circumstances. Tom Riley appears to be no more than eye candy for the ladies and I mean the ladies of the cast as most of the film is spent with Binoche and Forestier eye balling him and undressing him and carrying on some sort of twisted friendship between the three of them. Nick Nolte is a guy on the phone...I don't know why...I don't care...I get that Nolte's character has some kind of information regarding 9/11 but I mostly know that from the back of the box. The entire film is some sort of darkly sexually charged road trip between the three of them avoiding Turturro's ridiculous character and trying to find Nolte. Director and writer Santiago Amigorena has instantly became someone I intend to steer clear of if he thought of this in his head and actually...((gulp)) won awards for this. I can't even hardly believe I wasted the last twenty minutes writing about this garbage. Please, no matter what your tastes in films, steer as far away from this absolute borefest and excuse for artistry because there is nothing worthwhile here. ZERO/10 (Almost the worst movie I have ever seen)

Forget the obvious sources of annoyance: the fat and ugly girl, Binoche's toothless simpers and cigarillos, impossible characters, absurd pomposity passing for dialog, obsession with incest, plot holes, cookie-cutter stereotypes, annoying camera-work, poor direction, lame acting—the worst part of this film is the premise, which is that the older generation, in the form of a dynamic and responsible French-American duo, will teach the younger generation, in the form of a passive and irresponsible French-American duo, to get along. As if.They want me to write some more. I will. Don't waste your time on this tripe. The whole movie I was just hoping for the characters to die.

Santiago Amigorena co-wrote one of my favorite French movies of the last few years, Marion Vernoux' Rien a faire, so I checked out Quelque Jours en settembre with high hopes. Whilst it would be untrue to say those hopes were dashed this IS a film that in refusing classification will alienate as many, if not more, than it intrigues. Any movie that boasts John Turturro as a hit man named William Pound - or indeed as a hit man at all - has to be intriguing to say the least but almost as if that were not enough for Amigorena he embellishes the character by having him spout poetry in addition to being in analysis via cellphone. The film veers wildly and erratically between black comedy, thriller, incest, world politics and travelogue and to expand on just one of those labels it's a thriller shot at the pace of a Merchant/Ivory period piece. The out-of-focus sequences favored by Amigorena break the rules because they are NOT always from the point of view of Juliette Binoche - who periodically removes her eyeglasses to justify the effect but against this the camera-work plays down the two principal locations, Paris and Venice, and is refreshingly free of 'touristy' angles. It was, of course, only a matter of time before someone got around to speculating on the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 and this is, I suppose, as relevant as any but will inevitably seem like a let-down to the bubble-gum set should they wander in by mistake. For the rest of us it's highly watchable on several levels which is more than sufficient.