joshwapp

Like a soda that has been left in a glass overnight. Too bad, because it could've been OK, but too gimmicky and many of the jokes fell flat. I struggle to comment in a very meaningful way. Even its theme was soft. I wouldn't watch it twice, that's for sure.

Using love as a central theme is bland, as is much of the dialogue in this movie. I don't want to be too scalding in my review, since perhaps I'm missing some meat on the bones of this story since I don't speak French, had to rely on subtitles, and perhaps missed some nuance to the story. Fairly plotless which is fine, as long as it has a story that weaves together a meaningful odyssey, which this appeared to attempt to do.

The two parallel stories were disjointed and I was waiting for the movie to reveal the significance between the two narratives, but instead of this movie giving me suspense through interrelated tales, it just left me hanging and wondering why this movie was made in the first place. The last frame of the movie is an old photograph that slowly zooms into the waterfront of an old cathedral, and there are some objects that it focuses on but it is not clear what they are.

The good points of the movie was lush cinematography, interesting characters, and superb acting. It's just that the continuity was jagged, and much seemed like random stories merely repetitively exposing the central characters' frailties, as if we didn't get that in the first portion of the movie.

Still, I thought it was worth a look-see since it is so visually interesting and unique, and really transports us to times and places we'd likely never get a glimpse of in the same way in other movies, '60's Paris in run-down old apartments and streets, and modern Montreal in middle class families.

Interesting but a bit tedious.

Below average on every level. Kind of nice if you want to just numb out to a t.v. Movie. Otherwise, nothing stands out in this movie as very interesting or original.