Wilhelm-J

I'm German, I live in Paris, with my American wife. So here comes my absolutely neutral critique : Who cares about American or British or French accent. Stiff British wouldn't make it more authentic than sloppy American. Trying to steer the show towards the International is anyway not something to hold against it. Its weak points come rather from a sometimes tepid script, foreseeable dialogs and relations. It's obvious that the producers try to be reeeaaally careful and hold on to a crime series concept that has proved entertaining so often. Unfortunately, maybe too many times. An a bit more daring approach would help the show. But it's not soooo horribly bad. Instead of canceling it, the producers should improve it - the potential is / was there.

As a German living abroad for the past 12 years, it's been a surprising pleasure to see, back in Berlin, this little jewel of a movie. Step by step the young guy's everyday-life situations pull you in, develop a light but melancholic atmosphere in which great acting, a pensive and funny script, music that reminds the best of Miles Davis and awesome black-and-white camera-work form a wonderful whole of a movie. If you see, towards the end, average shots of Berlin turned into looking poetic… you know the film has found its tone just on the right note.

Beautiful - I hope this (first!) film didn't only accidentally turn out so well. You want to wish the director, all actors and his crew the very best !

My approach to this movie was pretty indifferent - I was actually turned off by the ad promising Julie Delpy yet in ANOTHER film in Paris chatting with some lover about relationships etc. Haven't we seen that twice already ? The fact that she even shot this one herself didn't necessarily help, on the contrary, even... Then, my own girlfriend wanted to see it, so what the heck... and we both were very pleasantly surprised ! Maybe because we are, too, a couple of two cultures (German/American) living in Paris. Not since the two 'Auberge Espagnol'-movies have I felt a similar connection to a movie, in which the director seems to have quite a sense for people on the street, a real talent to capture 'real life'. Different from 'screenwriter 14's impression I also did not bother me that neither Delpy's nor Goldberg's nor any other character is permanently likable. It's good that way ! And, what we both liked a lot : Finally a movie-comedy that does not constantly show postcard-Paris, but also the raunchy, rude, annoying, partly vulgar side. So, Julie, "didn't love you, didn't love your films", but this one is a home run !