the leading man is my tpye

The greatest movie ever made..!

Not even bad in a good way

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

They say art is meant to make you feel (and think). If you are going to watch this movie, you will feel.. something. So, there is an art in this movie. But on the other hand, you can take a hammer and hit you fingers with it and you will definitely feel something to. Is this art? Hurting your self with an object? According to some… it is. Just take a look at so called "performances".This movie is just like that. Artsy, self indulged performance. What is wrong with it? Let me quote Robin Skynner & John Cleese (yes, that guy from: Monty Python, Fawlty Tower, A Fished Called Wanda etc.) 2nd book – FAMILIES and how to survive them:John – Interesting. Well I'm not going to try to argue the merits of emotional dependence, because I've been so completely converted to your point of view, that all I seem to observe now is how much unhappiness the idealisation of dependence brings. Just take the Great Love Stories – Romeo and Juliet, La Traviata, Anna Karenina, Carmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Aida, Doctor Zhivago, Tristan and Isolde, Brief Encounter. Mention them to people and a dreamy radiance passes across their face and they say: "Oh, they're wonderful aren't they, so romantic." Well, they are not wonderful. They are tales of almost unmitigated misery. There's not ten minutes of good, everyday happiness and fun in any of them. The lovers usually get one dollop of over-the-top ecstasy and apart from that it's wall-to-wall suffering. They get stabbed, walled up in tombs, they throw themselves and die of consumption or renounce each other in agony. They're convinced they can only find happiness choose on grounds of unavailability. So, Doctor, why do you think all this dependence and its consequent suffering is equated with true love?Robin – Well, after all, the first love we experience, for our mothers, is like that. At the beginning of our lives we are completely dependent, so we do suffer badly if mother isn't there when we need her. And though we'll naturally always need love and support, if we don't grow out of this kind of childish demand we'll go on treating our lovers in the same way, trying to make them care for us like parents and feeling threatened when they don't.John – And this kind of love makes us feel 'special', doesn't it? As babies do, with all that exclusive attention. But really healthy families obviously don't believe that suffering adds significance to their lives.Robin – No. As they're not so needy, they won't need to justify childish demands by suffering terribly when they aren't met. (Page 13-14)Now add to this psychological profile "50 shades of Grey" type of complete misunderstanding what is BDSM all about… you get: After Fall Winter.My proposal: Please, use hammer instead. It's much quicker, it will save you time for the same effect – pain with no meaning (other than faulty misuse of handy tool). And as a matter of fact, there is no blame in it. Even the greatest minds of this planet hit themselves with a hammer, from time to time. You might even get a Newtonian "Eureka!" moment while suffering :)

Lizzie Brochere was just about perfect. With her excellent command of the English language that sometimes needed subtle correction, to her vulnerability and an inner sadness that made you want to hold and protect her, she was great. I would see anything she was in. Her counterpart, writer/director Schaeffer, was annoying. As a struggling, depressed, overly self-absorbed writer, he apparently had one extremely successful novel and could never achieve the same level of success again. Lizzie relates that she did read his novel and found it wonderful, revealing an intimate, sensitive, honest portrait of the writer. Somehow, the qualities that he exhibited back then were long gone. He was anything but lovable, happy, confident or worthy of this much younger woman's love and admiration. Also, he was broke and owed hundreds of thousands of dollars and still had the use of a dozen credit cards. The teenage girl that Lizzie was caring for was also excellent. As for the gypsy woman and her young son, they were very believable to me. If you are depressed or impatient, do not watch this movie, unless you cheer up when you see that other people can be a lot more screwed up than you are.

This is a love story about two broken people (Michael stated that all people are broken)trying to find repair (salvation, redemption, purpose, etc.) through love. However, the damages that Michael and Sophie bring into the relationship makes it difficult for them to develop a relationship. Michael is a masochist and Sophie is a dominatrix by profession who caters to masochistic men. You would thus think they were soul mates. However, Sophie only role plays her sadistic posture in her work and is not truly a dominatrix personally. Michael is a failure with many redeeming qualities and his masochism mollifies his failures and subsequent depression. Both enter the relationship hiding something from each other, and this serves as an invisible barrier to their love. For the first time in her life, Sophie overcomes her anxiety over intimate love and finds herself falling in love, following Michael's lead in his dependent need for her.However, Michael reveals himself as a pathetic failure who deceived her and she leaves him with disastrous consequences.The movie's ending is disappointing since the potential for developing a love relationship could have been actualized with time and proper honest communication.The movie is extremely well done in all aspects except the ending. The ending could have easily been revised in different ways to make a fulfilling story.Manuel Bonnet as Michael and Lizzie Brocheré as Sophie were both superb. For me, Brocheré's performance ranks with that of Giulietta Massina in "La Strada" as one of the best female performances.

There are few films that portray adult relationships in a realistic light, fraught with the complex shades that we who are adults know exist. Not just the black and white. This is one of those films.I loved that this film shows the struggles that exist in all romantic relationships along with the soft and loving parts. The script is deftly written, with extremely natural dialog, both funny and poignant at every turn and those turns happen sometimes on the heels of each other, much like life.We are live in the gray know that life has many shades as do our sexualities, moods, psyches, and I revel in films that have the maturity to discuss that fact.