What a waste of my time!!!

Waste of time

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Hugh Bonneville plays a reporter who will interview a French film director whose best works are about love films between men and women. He has been with the same woman, his girlfriend for 10 years and she doesn't want to marry him. His best male friend has reunited with an old girlfriend but is still involved with somebody else/ The film is about the British traditional view of relationships against the French film versions of love and romance. The acting is first rate with co-stars Victoria Hamilton and Ann-Marie Duff. This film was made for British audiences. I was lucky to have got and see only half of it because my DVD copy (I bought it from Blockbuster) at a discount rate before the store closed forever. I would like to know what happened in the end to all of them.

This is one of the most thought provoking movies I have ever seen. It starts out somewhat slow but if you watch and listen It makes you think about your own life and relationships. One of the main reason this movie caught my attention is because you are watching Grown Adults interact with other Adults. It does not take place around teenagers or pubescent young people. It deals with real life issues that can happen. I have basically given up on most movies that deal with relationships or romance because they basically are the same script over and over and over. This is why when I was turning the channel the movie was coming on and it caught my eye and I decided just to give it a chance, I am so bored with all of the teenage vampire movies, movies about tweens who are in high school, or teens who are in college and they want to date the jock or the cheerleader, or the most popular boy or girl, if you have seen one you have seen them all. So to see a movie with an Adult cast that actually said something, I was pleasantly shocked. I guess I don't have to watch old movies to get a movie with an actual plot I will be looking for more of the same.

I caught this is a repeat on BBC i-Player and I was very pleasantly surprised. This was the best film that I have seen in a few years. Not pretentious at all, but a well-made sweet film with some very human themes. The acting was just great and really believable. Cantona adds a nice touch - especially for those United fans who remember that Kung-fu kick and the sardines... What I liked most was how the script was so realistic and yet incorporated so many funny lines; I was cracking up with laughter and then almost had tears in my eyes... Really nice one!This won't appeal to everyone though - a couple of the reviewers tried to compare this to Notting Hill - please!!!

This is a lovely, funny and thought-provoking film which draws together the best elements of Nora Ephron's romantic comedies and Richard Curtis's London movies, with great nods to classic Woody Allen. It's a comedy about uncovering the truth in long-term relationships and finding out what you really want in life; one of my friends who watched it with me began to examine the parallels to his own long-term relationship. It's a film that runs deep. The story is about a magazine editor and a writer (Hugh Bonneville) from London who see a couple counselor as their long-term relationship begins to collapse. Their best friends' relationship is also in crisis. The solutions to all their problems appear within the 'films within the film' of a super smooth French expert on love, movie director Thierry Grimandi (a pitch perfect performance by former soccer player Eric Cantona), on whom the writer is writing a feature. The film is clever, funny and emotionally truthful and the parodies of the French director's films are spot on.