Brilliant and touching

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Blistering performances.

I'd seen this movie for sale when we visited the Coppola Winery. I'd never heard of it, but my interest was piqued. I am so glad that I saw it and can't believe that it took so long.This is a great movie. There are so many subtle details, but nothing that happens on the screen in unnecessary.I'm not a world class movie critic, but I know what I like. This is a good movie for movie lovers. This is a good movie for people who like mysteries (it's not a mystery, but there is a lot of foreshadowing that could be easy to miss or dismiss.) This is a movie for people who love the visually interesting (note that when Jeremy Davies character is talking to his dad, you see his dad's reflection in the mirror behind Davies' - amazing cinematography.)

I have just read the comment posted on IMDb site and I was really sorry to see that such an excellent movie was appreciated in such a wrong way. The plot description is correct, as the movie deals with the making of a B-Science fiction movie, but the message is to continue the fight against tyranny and this is it. The rest, including the movie itself is just the cover-up to say a thing, that is the most important in life, but has transformed itself into a cliché due its very importance. Roman has chosen excellent setting to enhance the very essence of the film. Jeremy Davies personifies the word "cool" and Ajgela Lindvall leaves Jacqueline Bisset eating her heart out. Gerard Depardieu, one of the greatest french actors, appears in quite a cameo-ish role but packs it with excellent emotions and symbolism. Hope Roman will someday give us another good one, as CQ remains, to this date, his solo directorial adventure.

It wasn't as bad as i was expecting, after reading all those negative reviews. It reminded me somewhat of Woody Allen's Stardust Memories which came out in 1980, but this is nowhere as good as that movie. This movie stars Jeremy Davies as a film editor who is promoted to director after the first two directors are fired. In one scene you can see Sophia Coppola, who must be related to the director. I've liked everything I've seen Jeremy Davies in and Billy Zane is good as a gay leading man. You can also see Dean Stockwell in a cameo as Jeremy Davies father.

I highly recommend this film for anyone who has a nostalgia for the great halcyon days of 60's European cinema. The plot very loosely revolves around the cast and crew of a Sci-fi, sex romp film, like the cult classic by Roger Vadim, "Barbarella" with Jane Fonda. The lead character is played at just the right level of smartness and sweetness by Jeremy Davies as a young aspiring film maker who's working as a directors assistant who in a plot twist ends up directing the film himself at the end. This is the first film by Roman Coppola, who wrote it as well, and it is visually beautiful and innovative with a good balance of fast paced story advancement and quieter character development moments, like some between Davies and the great Dean Stockwell who plays his father. I really enjoyed this film and was a bit surprised actually how much I liked it, anyone who doesn't get the obvious cliche ironic cinematic references or can't appreciate some of the campy good spirited fun by calling it "Stoopid" needs to lighten up.