Deux moi

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

Remi and Melanie may be perfect for each other. They live in the same building, separated from each other by the thinnest of walls. They shop at the same convenience store and take the same public transport, pass each other on the street, but in a city of millions will these two have a chance to meet?Focusing on how it is to be young and single in the modern Megapolis, and in particular Paris, the city of love, the movie takes on the daily lives' journey, that is as extraordinary as it is simple. The plot is easy to relate to, as so many of us follow the "work-eat-sleep" routine and rarely pay attention to the fact that something is not right with this arrangement, something is missing. Anxiety and depression in the film is seen as a part of the daily battles to be fought and are almost taken for granted. The leads by young stars François Civil and Ana Girardot are believable "girl and boy next door" trying to make their lives work and fight this desperate and lonely feeling underneath it all.

Director Cedric Klapisch specialises in romanticising Paris. Here it is practically a love letter to the city, and partly a guidebook to what it is to be a Parisian. SOMEONE SOMEWHERE may not be for everyone, it is certainly not a romantic comedy, and is slightly uneventful for a movie that runs almost 2 hrs. But the performances are great and the comprehensive script juggles many of the film's important issues with relative ease.

Focusing on what it is to be ready to accept true love than on the love affair itself, the film inspires optimism despite its melancholic nature.

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.

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.