One of the best films i have seen

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

*contains spoilers*I watched this film due to being a huge Doctor Who fan and subsequently a fan of Matt Smith as an actor.Also the concept was intriguing, a woman giving birth to a clone of her lover. I don't think however I was quite prepared for how messed up this film really was. Is that to say it wasn't good? that it wasn't entertaining? not at all. But you should not go into watching this film with a close mind. I went into this film..however open minded, extremely under prepared for the themes of incest. We witness a disturbing mother son relationship which given the circumstances of his birth is barely surprising.Despite what is undoubtedly a very weird story and some very uncomfortable scenes, this film is built on a great concept and for the most part executed beautifully.It was a particular highlight to see Matt Smith and Eva Green's combined performances which bring's the movie together. I could have easily rated this film an 8 or 9/10 if some of the uncomfortable scenes had been trimmed but taking all into account I'd give it a solid 7/10.

With a plot about conceiving and cloning your dead beloved I expected this movie to possibly become all kinds of disturbing.Luckily, the script is dealt with the hands of a director and a cast who handled the script delicately and on a humane level.That's not to say that this movie is politically correct in any way or won't be disturbing to some, but events that many directors would play for shock-value are dealt with in a way that it feels natural and it deals with mainly grey areas, a complicated issue never have a easy solution after all.Despite being very slow I was never bored and it sustain my interest throughout, a lot to do with some excellent acting, especially Eva Green shines.It's also visually very pleasing for the eyes with some very good cinematography.

Eva Green's lover dies and she gives birth to his clone, guides him through childhood and into manly youthfulness as she herself grows older but not less caring. Trouble ensues when Matt Smith brings home a cute and vivacious girl friend, Hannah Murray, and the three of them live together in a ramshackle cottage on stilts on the shore of the North Sea under a cloudy sky and amid the sound of a cold wind moaning about the structure, once upon a time.The story is really simple. Green wants to reincarnate her lost lover so that they can be together again in every sense. (Mom doesn't approve.) But although Green waits patiently while the infant grows up, horny and desperate for love, the kid has no such notion. He has no idea his mother is also his lover, or once was -- or something. Anyway, the experiment fails, but not before Green and Smith have one last angry encounter that ends in a strenuous bout of physical sex. No nudity, though. Don't worry. Nobody's going to undress in THAT climate.The story moves slowly and it depends almost entirely on Eva Green's ability to deliver myriad complicated emotions without much dialog. She does fine. If she were a toy instead of an actress she'd be made of PlayDo. There is a scene between her and Murray. The camera lingers on the back of Green's long raven hair as she stare out to see, and Murray hesitantly asks questions from behind. Murray, happy in her circumstances, wonders aloud if she's screwing up the household somehow. And Green slowly turns to face her without answering but with her features frozen in an expression of bitter hatred -- and the expression isn't overplayed! Green was a very sexy and thoroughly glamorized Bond Girl in "Casino Royal" and an existentialist teen in Polanski's "The Dreamers." She's at least as good here as the brooding widow.In an ethnological sense, the movie would be interesting if only because it puts on display the central issue of incest, a universal taboo with exceptions that only prove the rule. The usual explanation (nobody knows for sure) is that the role conflict that followed marriage within the nuclear family would be devastating. Can you be an authoritarian mother and a bed mate at the same time? How do you do that -- get on top? And can Smith really make the leap from a crafty child who must test reality once in a while and get spanked for it, to an ithyphallic adult male? Or -- well, when does the spanking stop and the intercourse begin? Interesting but slow. Poor Eva Green, the reckless experimentalist. She winds up sobbing alone on her bed in a cold dark bungalow while a pitying wind makes the shingles sing a soft and voiceless lament.

The theme of the film is haunting, provocative, controversial and irresistible. I had to see it as soon as I read the synopsis. It started hauntigly enough, with a pregnant woman and a beautiful beach. I am not going to go into details as far as the plot is concerned but this was supposed to be a love story. A woman clones and gives birth to a man who she is supposed to be in love with but not out of love, out of guilt, she felt guilty he died. I hate it when you know the director meant for the viewer to feel a certain emotion at a certain time and I felt none of that. I didn't feel the connection between the characters. In the beginning they were friends, than something more but not lovers, than a mother and child and in the end...well, see for yourself if you want to feel as if you have just wasted a couple of hours of your life. Great idea, really poorly executed.