As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Bruno Nuytten directed Isabelle Adjani in "Camille Claudel ",his only claim to fame as a director :critics were divided on this effort ."Passionnément" is the director's third work ;in spite of a good cast (Gérard Lanvin,Charlotte Gainsbourg and a young Berenice Bejo (later,Jean Dujardin's co-star in " L'Artiste"), the movie is stiff, cold and ,in spite of its title ,not passionate at all .A long flashback , the screenplay is not well-constructed and ,mainly in the first third ,it's hard to catch up with the story ;the characters are underwritten ,both mothers -we barely perceive that Bernard's is a bourgeois one and Alice's is a working-class woman- and the in-laws' motives are so obscure the story could easily do without them;even the ending does not make much sense.You can enjoy the beautiful landscapes of Mediterranean Porquerolles island :so could the actors,thus combining business with pleasure.