I Love America

This movie took me by surprise... I imagined it was a romcom but it's in fact very deep... in a French way. The wittiness of Luka can be lost in the plain English subtitles tho for the English speaking viewers.

Sometimes it reminded me of Pedro Almodovar cinema too... Sophie Marceau is the ONLY person for the role , she's fantastic. I will never forget the line « We leave our mother twice, when we are born and when she dies »... Watching this movie was an uplifting experience as it touches on love and tenderness, two things our world badly needs these days...

A feel good movie, genuine, funny, not trying to make a point, just a true story that needed to be shared. Very well performed characters and a breath of fresh air, sun, and dream beaches in LA. What a great change from all the drama and violence in most movies! I really don't understand the negative comments.

I liked the movie a lot. I don't understand the negative comments. First and most importantly, me and my wife had a great time. The shots of Los Angeles are magnificent. For those who didn't understand the film subject, it's a film about Liza Azuelos and her mother Marie Laforêt. Throughout the film we are told about the relationship between Lisa (Liza, the real one). Is Lisa's (Liza) mother a bad mother? Could this be Lisa's problem? Or it is maube not white or black. The film allows us to get an idea. The characters are endearing. Lisa's friend, Luka is very endearing. Throughout the film we see his love troubles. Will Luka find love? Back to Lisa, we see her love journey throughout the film. She too will find love and find happiness. We also laughed a lot. The secondary characters in the story also play very well. The clairvoyant, Aurora, John (Lisa lover?), Catherine, the lady from the boarding school, the Swedish naturist and the one who parks the cars.

As always, Liza creates a pleasant atmosphere that transports us throughout the film and I make the connection with the films 'une rencontrer'. Well done Liza, don't be put off by all the negative comments. I encourage you for new films in the future. Sophie Marceau always so beautiful and adorable.

Is it a movie ? Just a bubble , a cheesy one . Poor writing , the usual story about children 's traumas . A pale autobiography saved by Sophie Marceau , who brings her light and some fun . I have seen that type of movie so many times... hopefully I love LA so always pleasant to watch a few shots. You could have elaborate way more your cheap psychology . I hate to write bad reviews but I just lost time watching it until the end. LA will never be an interesting movie director , maybe she could if someone had written the script !? In this category difficult to beat The Holyday , and I don't put the bar high .

This is an exemplary film, which should be shown in film schools. It's a breviary of everything you shouldn't do. Impressive. The film lacks artistic direction. Which is normally the director's job (in France), or the producer's (in the USA).

The breviary is exemplary. There is a useless, and above all ridiculous, voice-over (it sounds like a text generated by a robot on the internet) which translates the director's inability to tell her story through the mise en scène. The film contains multiple shots, even entire scenes, that are unnecessary and could be removed. There are useless 20 minutes. There is a real lack of discernment. No one asked themselves the question of the length of this pensum?

Finally, to top it all off, the script is a pile of hackneyed clichés (not to be confused with stereotypes, which are useful for the drama), strung together like pearls and which seem to be thought of as powerful revelations... One of the ridiculous ones is the homosexual friend, very "crazy" of course and who owns a box of transvestites or similar: since 1978 (La Cage Aux Folles, Édouard Molinaro) the representation of homosexuality has come out of these chromos... The French are noisy. The runnings gags are at least out of a think tank. The cab drivers want to be actors. We have the shot on the mount Lee, the palm trees... The film is based on a dramaturgy and a scenario free of any element related to reality: the film contains no sociological, societal, social or economic element that links it to a reality. Impressive. They are wealthy and do not work. While the characters seem to suffer (we don't care).

It would seem that there is an alibi of truth, in the sense that there is inspiration from a true story. But veracity is no guarantee of drama.

Netflix has nothing to fear from Prime Video with a film like this. Prime Video needs to be careful and not fund films that are permanently weak, i.e. Dumb.