lilianaoana

Got roped in with Catherine Deneuve but this was not what it promised to be. Certainly not a Christmas movie and not exactly a family drama. It's not absurd enough to qualify for a satire, it's not ridiculous enough to be funny and it doesn't have enough bite to qualify for a hard-core family drama. It just sits somewhere in between not sure of what it wants to be and it doesn't succeed at any of it but it also doesn't necessarily fail, however I think it's biggest flaw is that it is unbearably long. I checked the time so many times and I told myself I made the wrong choice for the evening. It just doesn't know how to end and then it just does without much of a resolution.

Anyway these people are tough to crack or empathize with and certainly this is a French movie. The Sylvia-Ivan-Simon story is very French. I would not stand for that.

Henri and Elizabeth - there's no breakthrough or even clarification, revelation. Paul doesn't make much of an impact. Faunia was most likely underused as a character. The mother is also an enigma. Casually stating which children you like and which you do not, unless you're making it funny or dramatic is just pointless. Ok having your daughter play your daughter in law and saying you do not like her in the movie is kind of funny, but I just realized this now, not during it.

I guess it forgot it needs to be a movie and make some sort of point. Any point. Still, rating it as average for the actors, who are the highlight of this whole affair. I would've had a much worse time with some random actors.

Never heard of Hedley or this guy but artists and musicians abusing their trust and their fame and committing these despicable acts against their adoring fans is becoming pretty common. Or it's always been common and we're rarely finding out and in these last years several of them have been exposed. I mean groupies and willing young girls have always been there but there's a line, even for that, and certainly for coercive acts. And it's difficult to prove in court and it's despicable how you're picked apart cause the assumption is that you consent just because you're starry eyed about this famous guy. But no girl wants to be treated like that, no matter how much she adores and idolizes her celebrity crush. And it crushes you. And that verdict for the minor is unthinkable and absurd.

These stories will never end. Cause these men will always seek the environment for it and will abuse it.

So watching this for Bilkin and PP and it's kind of fun to see them again without all the longing and the angst, and they got good chemistry again. I did not expect this to be so gay and sassy but to be fair I do not remember much about the original sadly. This one's too long and you feel it, although it seems it's just as long as the original. The action could have benefitted from some tighter editing. It would have helped with the pacing and the flow and I might have liked it more.

Anyway they're cute and crazy and the story is ridiculous and crazy but why did they have to make me bawl my eyes out towards the end? I really don't remember if it's the exact same storyline as in the original but boy did it hit me. I almost wanted to see them together in their next life damn...