Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A great scenes and a so beautiful soundtrack this movie really but me in a good mood to the rest of the day . just go and watch this great piece of art

This film taps in to love the way we wish it could happen.Girl meets guy by happenstance, the chemistry's incredible, he thinks about her and she thinks about him -- and he doesn't drop her at the first sign of a problem.Director Claude LeLouche works like an impressionist painter here, creating a highly romantic canvas that is backed by one of the best soundtracks ever. Flashing back and jumping forward, and switching between black and white and color, LeLouche creates characters of some depth who are neither entirely realistic nor totally make-believe.I was intrigued to read on Wikipedia that one of LeLouche's films had been decried as misogynistic. I kind of understood upon observing Jean-Louis tell Anne: "It bores women to talk of technicalities. But I can tell you some trivia." The exotic-looking Anouk Aimee is winsome as Anne but needed a better hair stylist. (Was anyone else distracted by her constant efforts to keep her hair out of her eyes? She's even doing it in the movie poster!) The daring telegram she sends to Jean-Louis, after only two platonic outings together, made me gasp, but I suppose that was part of the fantasy here.Jean-Louis Trintingnant does well as the male lead, and it was intriguing to have that bit with his mistress and the racing magazine thrown in, showing that he could be a player just like untrustworthy men in real life.The back stories for this film are also interesting. According to Wikipedia, Aimee went on to marry Pierre Barouh, who plays her tragic husband in the film (they divorced three years later), and the actress, possibly a descendant of Alfred Dreyfus of the "Dreyfus Affair," converted to Judaism later in life. (Barouh had been a "hidden child" during the Naziism of his youth.) Wikipedia also says it was Trintignant who'd suggested Aimee for the role of Anne. Tragically, his own daughter was murdered in her 40s in a case that was controversial throughout France.

This morning I watched an old Jean Louis Trintignant in the film "Amour" a pretty forgettable film but with great acting throughout.. Later I viewed "Un Homme et une Femme" with Jean at the beginning of his career. I remember rating this movie very highly back then, but on watching it again - WOW! The absolutely fabulous camera work of Claude Lelouche, not to mention the directing and editing, plus the outstanding music from Francis Lai now make this my second best movie of all time. For those interested, it pushes "Brief Encounters" down to 3rd place. Virtually every scene and edit is perfect. It is utterly believable if you've fallen in love. Thank you Claude.

The story is thin: Anne (Anouk Aimée) and Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) meet, fall in love, have a hiccup, then move on to a happy ending. He is a race car driver and she is in the movie business (at some high level that I could never identify). The only things that lift this above soap opera--there being a suicide, an accidental death, a near fatal car accident--are its stars and its style. It's a mood piece using soft focus, some poetic imagery, extreme close-ups, telephoto lens shots, and a romantic score. Some of the mood shots may or may not work for you, like a *long* take of a dog running on the beach. In the spirit of full disclosure I can attest that if you have a dislike of auto racing, then that will detract from your enjoyment. I think that in well over half of the scenes cars play a role: people talking in cars, people racing cars, cars on oval tracks, cars being worked on. This could have been titled, "A man and a Woman and Cars." This may have been an early example of product placement, since the Ford Motor Company got some advertising here.On occasion a scene is inserted that appears to have no relevance, but then it turns out to be a scene from a movie that Anne is working on. I think the primary goal of those scenes and the auto racing scenes are to provide some variety and excitement to prop up an otherwise weak plot line. The screen time devoted to Trintignant's profession totally eclipses that for Anne's and I found that that unbalanced the story.This slight film is overly calculated to please. I came away with only a superficial understanding of this man and this woman.