everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Hannah is a woman well beyond her prime. She partakes in an avant garde drama class. She works as a house maid to a rich, probably, Parisian family's household. With a, maybe, stay-at-home wife and a blind young son.Back in her apartment, Hannah cooks dinner for herself and her husband. Fish. She and her husband dines before the TV. A sordid little apartment suitable for two sordid little people. A scruffy dog. Last dinner, it turns out!Next day, the couple drives to a prison and the husband is admitted. For what crime we're never told.Hannah keeps working, keeps attending drama classes. She has no friends. She talks to no one. A woman bangs on her door one evening. She wants to talk, "mother to mother". Simon, the faceless woman's son, is wetting his bed now. Isn't Hannah responsible? For what?After visiting a bath, Hannah is told that her membership has been revoked, not expired. It has been revoked! Why?At young black woman really tells the entire story while riding the Metro, but not in the way she thinks. She tells her lover, also riding in the same Metro car: "Did you ever love me?" "You should have told me what you wanted from the start". Hannah is riding in the same Metro car and hears the young woman. And she is reminded. The words uttered by the young woman should really have been Hannah's.Hannah rides the Metro to Michel, her estranged son whom she calls every week but never get any replies from.Her grandson, George, Michel's won, is having a birthday and Hannah has baked Michel's favourite cake. But Hannah is not welcome at the house when she arrives. George runs out to meet his granny but is told to go back inside by Michel. The cake Hannah baked with such aching love isn't welcome and the present she bought is wasted. Michel tells his mother off. "You're not welcome here!"Hannah's utter desolation in a women's restroom after the rejection is horrific.A handy man comes to Hannah to take a look at a leak from the apartment above and needs to move a cabinet. An envelope is stuck to the back of the cabinet. Hannah picks it up when the handy man leaves. She looks at what's in the envelope and we see the contents in Hannah's face. And we know why Hannah's husband is in jail. We know why Michel hates his mother and won't let Hannah meet her grandson.Hannah confronts her husband in jail and he turns and leaves. And the utter desolation of Hannah and her entire life is terrible.Charlotte Rampling is perfect as Hannah. A woman who never really envisioned, when she was young, the life she would have in her old age. Like most of us have no idea.

Despite an excellent central performance from Rampling this film is not easy and is not engaging. It is tedious. The story and its telling recalls Antonioni, think of: Il Grido, il Deserto Rosso, L'Avventura and La Notte, with characters who barely intersect, let alone have any connection to each other, solitary, desperate, fearful, they stumble about the world, tiny and wretched. And that is exactly what 'Hannah' replicates. Yet with Antonioni the films had a trajectory about a social and personal gulf which 'Hannah' doesn't', Hannah simply records the mundane as the mundane and even with a veteran in Rampling to give the merest levels of drama, it still falls short. In a film the dramatic premise is necessary, such a narrative as 'Hannah' simulates are possible in prose, they work very well on the page, but in a film the internal represented as physical space is insufficient. It's only observation. In some respects 'Hannah' is like a reality show, but whereas those shows tease the audience with sexual anticipation, Hannah ruthlessly records the anxiety of a lonely, miserable, woman.

Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment. Charlotte Rampling acts like she's bored out of her freaking mind and believe me she does what any other person will do once they see 'Hannah' i mean this film is 1hr and 33mins including the opening and closing credits so it's somewhere around 1hr and 30mins give and take and it's so freaking slow and boring i mean nothing really happens, the rest of acting was also horrible and none of the characters was interesting enough for me or anyone else who will see this movie to care. Overall overrated and terrible Cannes film. (0/10)

Look I lost 1h30 to see this movie its a worse I never seen frankly its a shame I do not understand the point to make a movie like this. This is no sense boring and without tail or head... Seriously the story is uninteresting and boring and the acting is unclear whether the actress is playing or is completely next to it so it seems worn and tired. TF1 make there another scrap do not lost your time with this