Someone, Somewhere

Majority of the film are nice pictures, but silent, of someone walking or looking far away. In between, very few dialogues, with few words.

Don't watch this expecting a movie filled with life like L'auberge Espagnole. It's almost a documentary about the life of most people in urban areas nowadays. Alone, looking at their phones, and seeing a psychotherapist to try fixing their sleep issues. I could have looked at myself instead of watching this.

You might like it for the nice shots of Paris life, if you're a big fan of the city. But come to the movie with a lot of energy, because it will drain it.

Deux Moi is a nice movie, relatable and pertinent to our times of too much information but little communication, but the story is flat, lukewarm and kind of boring. The characters are girl/boy next door (literally) and we get to know them mainly through their sessions with their shrinks. They are cute, but not interesting or engaging enough. Little happens that will surprise or enthrall the audience, while the movie navigates through its mundane events towards an easily predictable and mildly satisfying end. I watched it because I loved François Civil in Le Chant du Loup and because I love la langue de Molière, but I was somewhat dissapointed with this one.

This movie is like a screensaver, nice to look at but doesn't really go anywhere.

Or alone together? I mean are you completely alone if you live in the city? You are surrounded by so many people - and yet even if you are with someone you can feel lonely. This is about a man and a woman, who have issues of their own ... and live so close to each other, that you are just waiting for them to meet each other.

But the movie is not letting you off the hook that easy. It lets you dangle ... it teases you a lot. It gives you so many things ... and yet not what you expect. Even the "cat episode" does not play out the way you may think it will. So while this isn't your standard romantic movie, maybe that is exactly why you may like this more than those other ones. This feels way closer to real life in more than one sense ... will it matter if it has a happy end? You decide once you watched it and how you feel about the way this ... decides to end things.

This film is not for people who want action. It's slow paced and detailed. Some scenes are very beautiful and cinematic, something I personally really enjoyed.

In this film we get to see life as it is, it's far away from Hollywood. Poetic and little melancholic, but with a warm heart. Worth a watch.