Powerful

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

DEFINITE SPOILERS--GIVES AWAY THE ENDING TOO.This takes place in Paris (it's subtitled). There's three people who are sleeping and having sex together--Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), Alice (Clotilde Hesme) and Ismael (Louis Garrel). Then Julie dies suddenly of a blood clot. Alice seems to move on but Louis can't. Then a handsome young gay man named Erwann (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls in love with him. They have sex but is it what Ismael wants? The ending has a passionate kiss between Ismael and Erwann so I think they end up together.I'm going to ignore some of the homophobic reviews this movies has gotten. It's really sad in this day and age that people get so upset by seeing guys hug and kiss (by the way there's no explicit sex or gratuitous nudity here--unless you count the quick look at Erwann's butt). I found the movie involving and beautiful to watch. Also the gay sex and characters are handled realistically without dragging in stereotypes or offensive remarks. Even better it shows the main character getting over his loss. Sure, it's with a guy. So? That shouldn't be such a big deal. The sequence where the two guys start kissing and undressing to have sex is easily the most erotic and moving part of the movie. All the acting is good and everybody can sing. The songs fit the story perfectly. To be honest they're unmemorable but none of them are bad. This seems to mirror (in structure) "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". It's in three sections like that movie but, other than that, the movie is totally different. It might not mean anything but I noticed it. This was barely released in the US (the ending might have something to do with that) but I caught it on the Sundance channel and LOVED it. Well worth catching but if you're a homophobic jerk don't bother.

I just saw myself in the film as "Erwann" and discovered how the director successfully depicted homosexuality in such a pure and romantic way. Not putting "love" any borders is really the strongest part of the film. Ludivine Sagnier is the strongest candidate for being the new Catherine Deneuve of France. I think the new stars of France are Ludivine Sagnier and Benoit Magimel. Thanks to French cinema for having such nice actors, actresses, directors and producers. But I just waited a popular love song which all the world knows among all these epique ones. Another concern of mine is about the cross-cultural roleplaying experiences of French actors and actresses. They exist generally in French oriented films. I just want to see all these players co-playing with other countries' roleplayers and directors too.

Christophe Honoré's follow-up to Dans Paris is a disappointingly affair, that knowingly borrows from Godard and Demy but does little to convince the viewer that Honoré has anything new to tell us about cinema today.The main problem with this film is the inclusion of too many songs - 13 in fact, sung by most characters. Unfortunately, the strong narrative threads of the film suffer as a result of these constant musical interruptions which play as continuations of the realist style Honoré adopts. Unlike Dancer in the Dark, where musicality was an extension of fantasy, Honoré, in contrast, plays his musical interludes too close to the story and awkwardly cuts away unexpectedly on many occasions.The menage á trois story is loosely constructed and unconvincing at times, while the conversion of the male lead to homosexuality is not convincingly realised.After Dans Paris, I expected better but it's not to say this film doesn't have many great moments.

A typically powerful French film proving France as a great film making country! It is a dark comedy, with an intriguing structure...variously sad, funny and bizarre in equal measures. Some have described it as a musical comedy. It is not!Intelligently choreographed performances from Louis Garrel as the central character, Ismael, from Ludivine Sagnier as his girlfriend Julie, from Clotilde Hesme as Alice, the third character in the love triangle. Chiara Mastroianni puts in a strong performance as Julie's sister, Jeanne.Lovely images of grey, wintery Paris thanks to Rémy Chevrin; songs I want to hear again; memorable images of confused emotions and allegiances, and like Amelie,Delicatessen or Caché, it will stay with me a long time.Brilliant, thanks Christophe!