Ces amours-là

This film can leave one simultaneously with a feeling of exhilaration and exhausted to the point of tears! Seldom have I gone to a movie with expectations as high as this one to satisfied without even being asked,and I watch up to ten a week! The five stories,based on true events in the life of Mr. LeLouch,are interwoven into a story of epic proportion with scenes shot in the very spots where they happened. What could have been old stories of the 'war years' retold were given to us instead with a gut-wrenching, joyously vibrant story of love and betrayal usually reserved for those epics of the bygone era of Hollywood. This combined with acting pulled from the souls of basic unknowns ,some of whom begged for the parts,poured off of the screen to wash over the audience with so much more then we have come to expect these days...a true film going experience. See this with an audience on the big screen if you can, if not gather some of your closest friends around you and plenty of wine and tissues. I will only say that I've waited a long time to feel this way about a movie, thanks Mr. L.

MERCI

Thank you Monsieur Lelouch!

France and the U.S.A. are my "homelands", but when I watch Monsieur Lelouche's films, I am proud of being....simply human.

In my humble opinion, his films have a rare profoundness that makes them transcend beyond all standards of culture, figures of style....they dig deeply into the core of the human soul.

I am no film critic; my appreciations do not concern the technical aspect of his films, I will leave this ungrateful task to others, those who earn a living in a way I am glad I don't.

I will just say that a film by Lelouch encompasses much more than film making techniques and effects. A film by Lelouch is Poetry, Music, History accounts and travels of many kinds: travels in time, places and, most of all, within our soul.

This film is a beautifully scorching experience. It hurts to be human.

One key word comes to mind : Love: the catalyst of Life. Love of every form and degree.

The full array of human emotions are always present in Monsieur Lelouche's films. The seemingly "evil" in us, the "worst" in humanity can be transformed.

Often unnoticed details, short moments, may very well have a powerful impact on a person's destiny.

Life in cycles, the great story that never ends.

We come to this world and...

...we love, we hate, we suffer, we doubt, we hope, we despair, we sin, we forgive, we win, we lose, we learn, we love again...

as the great Tennyson wrote : " 'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"

I would like to thank Monsieur Lelouch for being who he is: a great poet!

The world is so fortunate to have him....

Obvious , not a remarkable film. But nice , honest and romantic, wise using pieces of film noir and classics, reflecting the Occupation life and its compromises or cold suspicions, the seduction of Americans in France and the nightmares after war, the happiness after chain of sentimental relations and the testimony about a long life events.

But the great detail is the movie theater and its magic , scene, refuge.

A film who seduced me for its last part . For performances and for credible traits of portraits of characters. Sure, not profound but for this other movies are fair answers. But honest, I repeat. A young women and his romances and her survive. And this is all. And it is enough.

Big expectations,big names, promising start and trailer, epic fail.

Not coherent, not meaningful, absurd and then vulgar, very boring a very unhappy melange of things.

The lead actress - acceptable but not as good as you might think when reading other reviews. She's...average.

Very bad chosen twists, poor script, nothing leads you to the conclusion that the director wanted to highlight (I only found details in reading A LOT of press materials.

The music - although the pieces taken separately might sound nice, is used in a very annoying way.

Do not, I repeat - do not spend money and most of all time watching this.

Aiming to be a complex story of the life complexity ended up in a series of clichees , sometimes forced, sometimes too easy- but then again: what is lije after all, when eavery and each of us are unique in a way? Seeing the movie 10 years after first release the effect of not being a modern one is augmented. However the story seen now in this not modern circumstances add to its credibility- like a docu drama. Not a visual masterpiece that I would like to see again but it let me with the sense of "this story was really and trully happened" . In terms of where life could lead one that follows heart and instincts, one that love life and self rather than others and social conventions.