Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This is a tale about two sisters. Ariane, a blonde young Parisian, is hopefully romantic. She works for one of those publications that sell 'comic romances' which are illustrated with photographs. Ariane spends her days in a sort of reverie composing situations in which she sees herself as the female model for her own stories. Most of her plots involve Farid, an attractive man who does not seem to share her enthusiasm, spending as much as he can away from her.Lena, the other sibling, is a cellist working with an musical ensemble. When we first meet her, she is performing in London. It is the kind of orchestra much like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra a group who plays music without a conductor. The guest soloist, Mark, catches her eye. They briefly date, but at the end of the tour, Lena goes back to Paris, and Mark, who is in demand, goes to Tokyo. Lena and Mark had an affair before he leaves for the Far East.The sisters live apart, but see each other frequently. Ariane's building is under repairs and Pablo, a Spaniard worker, becomes friendly with her. Ariane likes the man, but her heart is set on Farid. Lena, on the other hand, is involved with Francois, a man who one can see does not have what Lena is looking for. Ariane comes to realize Farid has no intentions for anything serious, while falling, little by little for the kinder Pablo. Lena and Francois come to a decision to split, but in her heart she wants Mark, who only reappears in her life at the end of the story, two years later. Mark confesses he has married, thus ending her dreams of sharing her life with him.Directed by Julie Lopes-Curval and shown on a French cable channel. The film is a light comedy with two endearing young actresses and a whimsical screenplay by the director and Sophie Hiet. "Toi et moi" surprises by Ms. Lopes-Curval's vision of how younger people in the present world still have dreams and aspirations for finding love and romance, such as Ariene and Lena. In the film Ariane's life is illustrated with photographs as though right out of the pages of one of those 'romance comics' which Ariene spends time elaborating, in which she sees herself as the heroine of her own stories.Julie Depardieu does one of the best works we recall ever seeing her do on the screen. She is lovable as the woman who has set her eyes on a man who does not appreciate what he has. Ms. Depardieu is totally convincing in the way she portrays her character. Marion Cotillard's Lena is also quite right. She is not as lucky as her sister because fate did not help her in the romance department. She secretly craved for Mark, who had other priorities, not caring to spend the rest of her life with Francois. The ensemble playing works out well. Jonathan Zaccai plays Mark, a man who could not commit himself, yet wanting Lena. Sergio Peris-Mencheta makes a nice Pablo. Eric Berger and Chantal Lauby are seen in supporting roles. Philippe Guilbert, the cinematographer does an outstanding job in capturing the locations in London and Paris. The score by Sebastian Schuller compliments the classical music heard as the classical ensemble plays fine music. One can only wish Ms. Lopes-Curval success in future endeavors.

There is something about this film that lifts it above the ordinary chick flick. The acting, on the whole, is pretty good. The actors who play string instruments were coached by a professional musician, and their 'miming' is convincing. What I found really touching is the inability of the main characters to communicate, to say the things that they really want to say, at the time they would matter most. In real life, people who seem 'destined' for each other don't always get each other. We tend to cling to comfortable but unfulfilling work or relationships and fear the consequences of taking a leap into the unknown. Fortunately, 'Toi et moi' avoids easy answers.On the minus side, the storyline could have been better developed. It tends to drag a bit in the middle, the graphic novel gimmick is overused, and the character of the sisters' aunt (Chantal Lauby) could have played a more prominent role. Despite these flaws, this is a film well worth seeing.

This is a film that suffers from not knowing who its audience is. I would think the film would not appeal to women, as this is not a "happy ever after" film--or at least it's not that way for everyone. Plus it's hard to relate to such flawed characters. If you're a guy, you probably will have little respect for the two female leads, as they seem hopelessly unwilling to be loved.The film is about two sisters who don't look alike and their love lives appear very different, but down deep they are both horribly screwed up and unable to love. Lena has a live-in boyfriend but is very emotionally constricted and cold. She builds walls around herself in a figurative sense. When she finally tries to pull down the walls, she is very selfish and hurts the boyfriend with little regard to his feelings. Nice lady. Ariane simply has no self-esteem---none. Her steady boyfriend won't commit emotionally. Heck, after dating two years, he won't even refer to her as his girlfriend. and only calls her when he wants her around--otherwise, he's always aloof and self-involved. Yet, despite this, she's very, very dependent and needy. Her job is writing bad romantic stories for a magazine and she retreats into the fantasy world instead of facing up to the fact that her lover is a jerk. It's a shame, too, as these fantasy interludes in the movie could have been really entertaining--too bad they are so short and seem almost irrelevant most times you see them.Ultimately the viewer is left hating or at least being annoyed with both ladies and this leads to the problem with the film. If you don't care about the ladies or actively dislike them, why would you ever think about recommending this film to a friend or keep watching it? My advice...don't. This film is a truly cynical look at what they say is love, though little of what I saw appeared loving or interesting.Decent acting can't undo a cold and unlikable script.

The movie is based on an usual triangle or maybe an unusual polygon if the male characters are included in the count. It is a straightforward telling of what happens in the life of two sisters in their late twenties more or less except... and the except is that along with real life, we see the fantasied versions of events as the older sister, a romance writer, imagines them. The use of a stage set background for the fantasies sets them apart from the real events in the sisters' lives.Although technically, the movie is very straightforward, the use of music -- the younger sister is a cellist -- heightens almost every scene. A male violin soloist becomes part of the younger sister's real and imagined life (her fantasies are not made visible) and in fact knowing him changes her life in a way she doesn't expect. I keep thinking about the paradoxical but plausible view of her situation. Maybe the older sister's destiny is less plausible but, hey, the movie is billed as a comedy.