Redundant and unnecessary.

Powerful

good back-story, and good acting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I cannot help thinking of the cliché of a book being better than the movie after viewing this film. This film is so bereft of dialog that it could only make more sense as an interior monologue of a character in a novel. This lack of dialog is only beaten out by the utter lack of anything happening. Do not for one minute believe anything or anyone who suggests that there is any passion between these characters. I can only surmise that watching senior citizens watch MATLOCK re-runs is far more erotic than this film. The premise is boring, the execution is boring, the actors appear only half-interested. I'm sure they wanted to bring more fire to their characters but were held back by the director's need to ensure that this film would memorable for the time it wastes of everyone involved.

What a truly dismal film this is. It's a disastrous nightmare of a film, I completely hated it. I admit some of the cinematography is quite beautiful (though less than breathtaking). But, to get to the point (which this film never does), it's boring. It's really boring. Quite frankly it's more boring than watching a blank screen for 90 minutes - is that all? It seemed three times as long. Nothing happens at all: there's no plot, no dialogue, there's nothing to the characters. It's just a string of very very long scenes in which nothing happens: the heroes are stuck in traffic for ages, they go out and have a totally boring dinner, and so on. Even the sex is profoundly boring. There are literally about 20 words spoken during the whole film, and those are all of such a studied banality as to almost (but not) make them funny.Why would anyone make a film like this? Well I suppose that the idea was to make a film illustrating the boring and unfulfilling lives that many lonely people live in big cities. If that is the aim of the film, then there's no question that it succeeds, but surely there must be a more imaginative way of doing it than by making such a boring and unfulfilling film. It seems as if the director believed that the inclusion of anything which wasn't bowel-achingly tedious (an interesting character for instance, maybe the odd thought-provoking bit of dialogue, the occasional bit of action, or even (God forbid) some plot worth speaking of) would constitute a breach of principle. So such conventional contrivances are rejected, and we're left with a blow by blow account of two deeply uninteresting silent people being stuck in traffic. Well thank you for the insight into the human condition, but I've learned more about life, and had a far more entertaining time, clipping my toenails.

if you liked her previous films, chances are, you'll like this. it's a fine film if you're not looking for big chase sequences involving mini coopers or big star romance, it's interesting and pleasant and nice and not at all a waste of time, in fact, I loved it. don't pay any attention to the one that posted before me. yeah, thats right, i just took a shot at frenchy who likes his plots thick. well, there's lots of films to choose from out there so having the option to choose tween different styles is often a beautiful thing. if you liked beau travail, you'll love this. please see it, because I guarantee you'll think about it long after. and i really like beau travail, all the dancing and the magic and that guy, denis lavant, who's in all the leos carax movies, o.k., i'm drunk but i really like this movie, you should check it out. nice, interesting.

This film resists all that is wrong with blockbuster cinema, totally refusing to offer straight-forward, passivity-inducing narrative structures. It is one of the most book-like films you are likely to see, taking its time to develop the central characters in manner that leaves them open to determination by the audience's imagination. It is an erotic film that has no climax. It is a film that engages in life rather than distracts us from it.This is an immensely subtle film that uses a broad range of cinematic techniques so you should definitely see it on a big screen. In fact, I wouldn't even bother seeing it on TV, so diminished would its impact be.