Longing

I loved this film and can't understand why it has such a low rating. The story develops beautifully from start to finish, with plenty of twists and turns, a lovely sense of humor, and a great cast delivering fantastic performances. What I like most is the balance: neither the actors nor the script become overly dramatic, despite the characters' significant pain. The humor is perfectly balanced as well-any more or less, and it wouldn't work. Well done. It seems like audiences are getting less discerning by the day. If you don't understand what you're watching, please refrain from rating it. I strongly recommend this unconventionally sweet movie.

Saw this in a 'surprise' screening of a random new movie.

The movie starts by Richard Gere and his ex from 20 years ago reconnecting, finding out that he had a son etc.

From the starting scene on I wanted to leave the cinema but I had just bought popcorn so decided to soldier on. That was a mistake.

Two hours later movie ended. Not a single laugh / chuckle from audience during the movie. Nobody looked happy while leaving the cinema. People around me were pondering is it ok to just sneak out halfway of the film.

The film was a mess, hard to relate to any of the characters and the grand wedding finale feels very flat. In Cinema I felt a wave of relief that it ended. That was also the only time audience seemed to react to the film.

I enjoyed this film a great deal, not least because of Richard Gere's deeply convincing dramatic portrayal of Richard Bloch, a man who becomes obsessed with the son he never knew, and who becomes determined to find validation of himself through the boy he never met. The story unfolds slowly, gradually disclosing its secrets only, it would seem, incidentally. Meanwhile, Bloch discovers in himself, the dutiful son, also what might have been a doting father. Sidetracked from the vocation of fatherhood, he becomes a successful, if insular individual and it's only through the unexpected encounter with a child he never met, does he engage with the promise within himself that had gone unrealized - even as his expectations are diminished and the idealism of fatherhood is laid bare by a son, who, finally falls far short. It's a brilliant study in paternal love and longing, imo, and wonderfully acted by all. Gere's performance, was for me, a revelation. I simply never expected this of him. Offbeat, and quite dark, this film will appeal to people who enjoy stories from life; who are ok with the unconventional, and engage with life's complexities.

I gave a little hope to this movie because of the casting and a breif storyline introduced. However, at the end, I could not understand why the people involved in productionbwould think the story is fine and really made it happen. What a disappointed movie which absolutely wastes my time and triggered my anger after that.

A father who never knew his son before made a series of stuipd and silly things but everyone around him also did the same. I could not see any love from this movie but just non sense actions and decisions made.

If anyone finds difficult in sleeping, this movie may help you.

In uncomfortably odd drama "Longing" Canadian Suzanne Clément suddenly tells ex-bf NY mogul Richard Gere that after they split up 20yrs ago she had his son... who's now just died in a car crash. Cue Gere taking off to Cambridge, Ontario to learn some harsh truths about the lad (from the likes of Diane Kruger) while engaging in some pushy and downright bizarre behaviour (like arranging a wedding between the dead son he never knew and a dead girl that the boy had also never met). What writer / director Savi Gabizon was going for in remaking his own 2007 Israeli original (of the same name) is unclear... but the result's perplexing... and not in a good way. Flush it.