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5x2

  • 2004
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Stéphane Freiss in 5x2 (2004)
Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
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Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.

  • Director
    • François Ozon
  • Writers
    • François Ozon
    • Emmanuèle Bernheim
  • Stars
    • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • Stéphane Freiss
    • Françoise Fabian
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • François Ozon
    • Writers
      • François Ozon
      • Emmanuèle Bernheim
    • Stars
      • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
      • Stéphane Freiss
      • Françoise Fabian
    • 65User reviews
    • 104Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    • Marion
    • (as Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
    Stéphane Freiss
    Stéphane Freiss
    • Gilles
    Françoise Fabian
    Françoise Fabian
    • Monique
    Michael Lonsdale
    Michael Lonsdale
    • Bernard
    Géraldine Pailhas
    Géraldine Pailhas
    • Valérie
    Antoine Chappey
    • Christophe
    Marc Ruchmann
    • Mathieu
    Jason Tavassoli
    • L'Américain
    Jean-Pol Brissart
    Jean-Pol Brissart
    • Le Juge
    Eliane Kherris
    • L'avocate
    Yannis Belkacem
    • Nicolas
    Sylvie Debrun
    • L'échographiste
    Jean Neisser
    • Le Maire
    Ninon Brétécher
    • Sophie
    • (as Ninon Bretecher)
    Marie-Madeleine Fouquet
    • La mère de Gilles
    Pierre Chollet
    • Le père de Gilles
    Carlo-Antonio Angioni
    • Le réceptionniste
    Domenico Sannino
    • L'animateur italien
    • Director
      • François Ozon
    • Writers
      • François Ozon
      • Emmanuèle Bernheim
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    7claudio_carvalho

    Five Moments of a Relationship of a Couple

    The end and beginning of the love of the French couple Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss) is disclosed backwards through five moments in their lives:

    1st moment: They divorce and have one last brutal intercourse without love.

    2nd moment: With their relationship shaken, they have a dinner party with Gilles's gay brother Christophe (Antoine Chappey) and his younger mate, when an infidelity is disclosed at the dinner table.

    3rd moment: The troubled pregnancy of Marion and the delivery of their premature son Nicolas, with the total absence of Giles.

    4th moment: Their wedding, when Marion commits adultery with an unknown guest of the hotel.

    5th moment: .When they meet each other in an Italian resort and begin their relationship.

    This simple and realistic movie recalls "Irreversible" (2002), since the screenplay discloses five moments of the relationship of a couple chronologically backwards. I believe the first intention of François Ozon is to remember that behind every divorce, there is a couple that loved each other in the past, that decided to marry each other expecting to live together and raise a family of their own. However, relationships usually deteriorate and time destroys everything including love. In these fragmented glimpses of the lives of Marion and Gilles, the viewer does not see exactly when their love ended, but after their initial encounter, there are many signs suggesting the beginning of the end: the adultery of Marion in the wedding night; the absence of Gilles in the birth of his son; his consented participation in an orgy in the presence of Marion, visibly showing one sort of last attempt to save their empty marriage. Further to the good screenplay, the outstanding and strong performances of the sexy Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Stéphane Freiss give the credibility to the characters. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "Amor em 5 Tempos" ("Love in 5 Times")
    7howie73

    Flawed but engrossing

    5x2 comes as a slight let-down following director Francois Ozon's recent critical and commercial success with Swimming Pool.Ozon's decision to structure the film in an anti-linear fashion is nothing original and he himself admits he was influenced by Jane Campion's little-known TV film Two Friends (1985) which used the same structure. Ozon chooses 5 crucial scenes from the life of Marion and Gilles, a middle-class couple with a son, Nicholas, whose married life quickly disintegrates into divorce. Ozon begins with the austere divorce, finishing with the moment this would-be-couple met.

    The reverse structure allows the viewer to consider what went wrong and decipher why the marriage ended so bitterly. It is fairly obvious the reasons why they divorced, but Ozon and his frequent collaborator, Emmanuelle Bernhein, are as interested in the psychological worlds of these two people as their mundane reality.

    The film works for the most part, but some scenes are unbelievable: Gilles's boastful confession at the party with his brother; the scene in the woods with Marion and an American tourist. These scenes undermine the subtle nature Ozon employs elsewhere. He explains too much, which isn't his style. A better edit would have made this an even better film.

    As for the music, the corny 1960's Italian love songs used to close each segment are plain awful. The triviality of the songs might offer an ironic counterbalance to what is happening on screen, but the effect is of a sneering, sardonic detachment on behalf of the director. It's as if Ozon wants to dismiss every aspect of romantic culture as a fallacy.The best musical segment is at the end where Ozon's longtime composer Philippe Rombi returns some panache to the film's audio sensibilities. Special mention should go to Paolo Conte's haunting Sparring Partner which is used in the dinner scene and in the final credits.

    The acting is excellent,and the closing frame is a masterstroke.But it doesn't merit that many repeat viewings as his earlier Swimming Pool did.
    9ferbs54

    Almost A Perfect 10

    A film that suggests a cross between Bergmans's gut-wrenching "Scenes From a Marriage" (1973) and Stanley Donen's more lighthearted "Two For the Road" (1967), mixed in a bit with that backwards "Seinfeld" episode, "5X2" (2005) is a very fine adult drama from director Francois Ozon. As the title suggests, it is comprised of five short glimpses at the doomed relationship of a handsome professional couple, Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stephane Freiss). As in "Two For the Road," we see unchronological snapshots of this couple's failing marriage, but unlike the '67 film, rather than being given scattershot scenes from various periods, here we proceed continuously backward in time: from the divorce settlement and its rather icky aftermath, backward to one of the couple's dinner parties, back still to the birth of their premature son, on to their wedding party (and a most unusual wedding night, to put it mildly), and all the way back to one of their first meetings. Our foreknowledge that the couple's marriage is doomed makes the cracks in Marion and Gilles' relationship stand out all the clearer. Consequently, the pretty, upbeat ending is rendered bittersweet at best, with our preglimpse of what their future holds. "5X2" has been finely put together and features sterling acting down to the smallest bit players. It was especially great for me seeing that grand old actor, Michael Lonsdale (who will always be Hugo Drax for us Bond fanatics), still acting at age 74, here playing Marion's father. My only complaint, really, concerning "5X2" is that it is a bit on the short and sketchy side; perhaps a few extra scenes would have enabled us to more fully understand the characters' motivations, particularly Gilles' (and especially his no-show at his son's birth). This, for me, is the only thing that prevents "5X2" from being a perfect 10.
    8Angeneer

    A thoughtful look at relationships

    At 5x2 we see the course of a relationship from end to beginning. The reverse chronology of events is now a well established editing technique which almost always works and intrigues the viewer.

    The personalities of both Marion and Gilles are established fairly quickly, but the reasoning behind their actions is usually explained at a later time. In fact, this shows how well written 5x2 is, because throughout all five episodes the characters of the protagonists don't change, their behavior has changed due to actions of the other part.

    Both actors deliver high caliber performances and their faces write perfectly on the screen. They do create a chemistry when needed (and a lack of again when needed). Can you believe by the way that beautiful Valeria Bruni is forty years old?

    The vintage Italian music adds color to the story and Ozon shows he is an accomplished director. As the movie ends he gives us one of the most idyllic scenes ever filmed.
    8Chris_Docker

    Finely nuanced and impressive performances

    The 'reverse chronology' format, that has now been tried and tested a few times, will perhaps one day become as unshockingly acceptable as the more prosaic use of 'flashbacks'. Both involve non-linear storytelling, and both attempt to grab audience attention by time distortions. Flashbacks are now so commonplace within mainstream films that the 'purist' Dogme movement banned them altogether – being so structurally clichéd and rarely justified. So when Ozon's 5 x 2 tells a love story about two people in five chapters, but starting with the last chapter and working forward, is he using a valid artistic device or just being gimmicky? In the opening scene, our loving couple (Marion and Gilles) are finalising the details of their divorce. Afterwards they have a last-fling sexual bout which takes an unpleasant turn. Flipping back scene by scene, we next see them as a loving married and entertaining visitors, chatting away about fidelity and sexual deviance and again we see a slightly unpleasant turn – perhaps the seeds of the divorce that we already know will happen. In each chapter we follow the love story to earlier and earlier stages.

    In Irreversible, another French film, the reverse chronology format was used to shock, to take us on a journey from hell to heaven. In Memento it was used to heighten suspense and provide the basic device that the mystery revolved upon – we never knew more than the main character about what had happened before.

    In 5 x 2 the effect is to highlight small things that go wrong in a fairly ordinary relationship. If it were a gradual decline from better to worse they might have gone unnoticed, but our starting point being divorce our interest in why things went wrong is perhaps more acute.

    The other thing that marks out this slightly unusual film is the remarkable acting range shown by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (who won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Marion). We see not only an incredible range of emotion but many sides to her character. The finely nuanced performance draws attention to things like the person a woman may be to her husband whilst still have a secret side, or her ability to put on a brave face when crying inside. The observation of a range of emotional and sexual explorations is done with the attention to detail that seems so intrinsic to much French cinema: the characters really seem to feel what is happening as if there is no camera on them at all. Sadly 5 x 2 however may not have the shock value of film like Irreversible or the sugar-candy feelgood factor of films like Amelie: mainstream foreign audiences like their French movies to nevertheless fulfil certain passive entertainment criteria, which this thinking and understated movie obstinately refuses to do.

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    • Trivia
      In the French edition of the DVD, the director offers a version of the movie titled "2 x 5". This version shows the five sequences in the chronological order, from the moment the couple meets till their divorce. Subtle editing work has been applied to make the movie work.
    • Goofs
      The scene where the American came to Marion during the wedding night and introduced himself who arrived in France today and would leave tomorrow for LA. Who would just do that? It's just lame.

      (Answer: someone not coming from the USA, for instance.)
    • Soundtracks
      Cinq Fois Deux
      Performed by Philippe Rombi

      Courtsey OST by BMG

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    • Release date
      • September 1, 2004 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
      • Official site (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Cinq fois deux
    • Filming locations
      • Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France
    • Production companies
      • Fidélité Productions
      • France 2 Cinéma
      • FOZ
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    • Budget
      • €5,250,784 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $128,752
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $15,667
      • Jun 12, 2005
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,444,906
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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