I Love America

As a casual watcher and older woman, I enjoyed this movie very much. I also relate to the main character's experience of raising herself. I recommend watching without expectations and entirely. This movie is hauntingly hopeful.

This is an exemplary film, which should be shown in film schools. It's a breviary of everything you shouldn't do. Impressive. The film lacks artistic direction. Which is normally the director's job (in France), or the producer's (in the USA).

The breviary is exemplary. There is a useless, and above all ridiculous, voice-over (it sounds like a text generated by a robot on the internet) which translates the director's inability to tell her story through the mise en scène. The film contains multiple shots, even entire scenes, that are unnecessary and could be removed. There are useless 20 minutes. There is a real lack of discernment. No one asked themselves the question of the length of this pensum?

Finally, to top it all off, the script is a pile of hackneyed clichés (not to be confused with stereotypes, which are useful for the drama), strung together like pearls and which seem to be thought of as powerful revelations... One of the ridiculous ones is the homosexual friend, very "crazy" of course and who owns a box of transvestites or similar: since 1978 (La Cage Aux Folles, Édouard Molinaro) the representation of homosexuality has come out of these chromos... The French are noisy. The runnings gags are at least out of a think tank. The cab drivers want to be actors. We have the shot on the mount Lee, the palm trees... The film is based on a dramaturgy and a scenario free of any element related to reality: the film contains no sociological, societal, social or economic element that links it to a reality. Impressive. They are wealthy and do not work. While the characters seem to suffer (we don't care).

It would seem that there is an alibi of truth, in the sense that there is inspiration from a true story. But veracity is no guarantee of drama.

Netflix has nothing to fear from Prime Video with a film like this. Prime Video needs to be careful and not fund films that are permanently weak, i.e. Dumb.

I only enjoyed watching Sophie Marceau in this movie. Otherwise the story is really boring, the role of the gay best friend is a caricature, and the actor doesn't play well. The voice over and the constant flashbacks become annoying and too repetitive. The story doesn't feel real, we don't see anything about her career as a movie director in LA. People are rich but don't work. I was just hoping for a plot twist all along the movie, but nothing ever happened.

A feel good movie, genuine, funny, not trying to make a point, just a true story that needed to be shared. Very well performed characters and a breath of fresh air, sun, and dream beaches in LA. What a great change from all the drama and violence in most movies! I really don't understand the negative comments.

This movie took me by surprise... I imagined it was a romcom but it's in fact very deep... in a French way. The wittiness of Luka can be lost in the plain English subtitles tho for the English speaking viewers.

Sometimes it reminded me of Pedro Almodovar cinema too... Sophie Marceau is the ONLY person for the role , she's fantastic. I will never forget the line « We leave our mother twice, when we are born and when she dies »... Watching this movie was an uplifting experience as it touches on love and tenderness, two things our world badly needs these days...