Les vaisseaux du coeur

If you are looking for a movie with a prudent life lesson or just a "happy end/justice to all" thing or an ordinary chick flick, than you might want to go back to Maid In Manhattan's...

It takes some life experience to let the beauty of this movie sink in... and by that I mean - no judgment, simply going for the essence, which ultimately has to be love.

Why am I submitting this comment 13 years after the movie's release and 5 years since I've seen it first? Because they are timeless occasions in life, so common in this new internet/long distance dating era, in which this story reveals that you really don't need to always have it all, the socially acceptable and expected full packaged "life together" deal in order to feel the true love and happiness.

This love story gives hope to those, that haven't had the luck to spend their happily ever after with a person they love and respect the most. Why it didn't happen between the main protagonists, might be the discussion point to the crew that gets their answers by judging other people's choices.

For the rest of us that crave simply feeling alive, loving and loved, the storyline (not perfectly done and not perfectly acted) offers the wealth of thinking beyond the compromise and the white picket fence. Upliftng, hopeful, giving and enriching for what it is - a treasure that can happen in one's lifetime.

I always wanted to watch this movie, but I never came around to it ... until earlier that is. Now as a teenager I surely was attracted to this because of the steamy theme it promised. But there is more to this than just a hot love affair. Two people who are different, but attracted to each other ... actually being "different" never stopped any love affair - it more often than not encouraged it.

As is the case here. And while you get hot and steamy sexy scenes every once in a while, you also get the psychological issues and strains it gives the characters ... one might say the problems are self induced ... and they wouldn't be wrong ... the question is, aren't we all different and therefor act weird ... or whatever others would call weird. Life would be simple and boring if things would go smoothly ... even if we would wish it sometimes ... or many times.

Great drama, great performances - it may be your desire ...

This movie is about love and all the sacrifices we have to make sometimes to have just one moment of true happiness. I've seen the movie and read the book and i truly think that this is the best movie i've seen. It's intense and intelligent plus the actors are perfect in their roles. Vincent D'onofrio has the perfect body and face for this. I even bought the movie and i watch it once a month. The book is even more intense because of all the details. The title of the book is Les vaisseaux du coeur in french and the autor is Benoite Groult. If someone wants to read it! I saw the movie for the first time in 1994 and never forgot about it since then. I was just a teenager but i remembered the title and two years ago i found this movie in a garage sell and it became my treasure!!!

I loved this movie, it is a very emotional piece and the two leads do brilliantly. Vincent D'Onofrio does a very good Scottish accent ( very sexy one too ) despite being around 30 at the time he and Greta ( his off screen girlfriend )made this film the makeup is very convincing for his ages ( 19-50 ).

George falls in love with Gavin, but her new life of the arts appeals more to her and she rejects Gavin because his lifestyle doesn't interest her, but they continue their love affair regardless of the obstacles in the way, spanning the globe from Paris to Montreal.

The love scenes between the two actors is very realistic conveying the passion that they feel for one another all the more emotional for the viewers. Despite Georges treatment of him, Gavin continues to love her. She tells him she loves him in the end, but it is too late and is left to her memories and regrets at the close of the film.

Released as "Desire" on DVD, this flick is a love story about an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers; he a humble Scottish fisherman (D'Onofrio) and she a capricious intellectual (Sacchi). The difference between male and female scores on IMDB.com makes this film out to be the grandmother of all chick flicks even though the film gives no good reason why two such very different protagonists would even be able to get along much less love one another from afar sustained only by periodic trysts over a couple of decades. In spite of the tenuous and somewhat contrived plot, the film does have a story to tell about a woman who learns the meaning of true love while the film begs the question; is it too late? One for the ladies, not for the laddies. (B-)