Nés en 68

In short: This film is a waste of time. I came here thinking I will see a good French drama or an engaging autobiography of the lives of some free-spirited college students from 1968, but none of that happened. The movie simply follows the life of the main female character whom I forgot her name, and her friends and multiple lovers, and then later her children whom we see grow up. But nothing interesting and nothing makes you want to relate to the film. Kind of like watching a soap opera all glued into one very long film, but without anything worth watching. After watching the first hour and half, I decided to increase the speed of the move to 1.25 faster than 1.5 faster, then finally I decided to fast forward all the way to towards the end and even then I didn't finish it. Simply a waste of time that didn't make me feel anything.

So miserable, i don't know a thing about France history, so i can't clearly understand this film, just a quick shot to see what happend, and then i have to said that i got into it so deeply, but when i walk out, nothing there in my mind :(((( i feel sorrow, just want to forget all these pain it made

at first sigh, the film of Laetitia Casta. at the second, fresco of the France in the second part of the XX century. in essence, an ambitious film. maybe, too ambitious. because, for cover a large period, it use a strange puzzle stratagem. and that does it incoherent. boring in few scenes. too long. a form of improvisation. Laetitia Casta is the axis of the story and she does a real good job. but it is not enough. because the film , in the second part, lost its direction. a saga of family who becomes an improvisation, who can not convince the viewer, who remains useful as a photo album for remind different moments from the France's policy.sure, remains the atmosphere. and the salt taste of old freedom, sacrifices and decisions. but it is far to have a precise message. it is not a manifesto or recreation of a period. it is tender and seductive and touching in few scenes. but not real convincing.

Having lived through the Student Riots in Paris, May, 1968, the United States Civil unrest in the 60's, AIDS in the 80's and advancement of technology in the 90's to the present, I can relate to everything in this movie. Perhaps, younger people may not quite understand the intensity of this movie and its historic nostalgia. I highly recommend this movie as a viewpoint from the French point of view during highly volatile times.

The film deals impeccably with disaster that ranged from death, imprisonment and the glimpse of the Twin Towers.

I would like to have seen the friendships of the people developed a tad bit more than what they were; however, the viewer can leave all to the imagination, or, perhaps relate in one's own life.

A two hour and forty-six minute soap opera about dozens of people I didn't care about for even ONE minute. Not even for one SECOND.

A heavy, plodding, totally humorless and lifeless look at the most exciting and eventful 40 years in the history of the world. I refuse to believe it was as boring in France during those decades as this movie makes it seem.

I love France, the French language, French movies, and the charming, cranky, creatively self-centered French people who love their country so much that they sincerely believe it's the center of the world. They deserve better than this dead, stupid, catatonically boring, navel-gazing, leaden record of their recent history. They've made some fantastic movies, but this is not one of them.