I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good start, but then it gets ruined

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The most notable feature of this film has to be the fact that it contains a rather remarkable gay love story. Yes, two men. This instantly explains the poor distribution of the film (above all in the US) which other reviewers seem to find baffling. Well, it's not perplexing at all: the prevailing judgment in the film distribution world in the United States is that anything containing male homosexuality is box office poison, offensive to Christians, etc. In fact, the Ismael/Erwann romance, the new love which resolves the protagonist's lost love, is strikingly inconspicuous in all the promotional material associated with "Les Chansons" - posters, images, cast list (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, who plays Erwann, is completely sidelined, though his character is as important as Ludivine Sagnier's). But clearly hiding Erwann and the gay theme from view didn't help: "Les Chansons" had to be hidden from the viewers altogether. It's nothing new where (male) gay content is concerned. As we know, getting "Brokeback Mountain" made and distributed was a long, wearying, obstacle-ridden business, and the film was deliberately snubbed at the Oscars. Similar difficulties attend every other film in which there is any representation of gay men doing what they do - i.e. making love to other men. In "Les Chansons" the problem is all the more acute, because one of the men doesn't seem to be gay at all ... so it appears that he chooses homosexual love.And this is one of the elements which make "Les Chanson" unique - it's unusual, to say the least, to encounter the implicit suggestion that a male character with heterosexual experience (documented in the film) might opt in favour of gay love. The two men in question also constitute an original, even startling combination - just as distinctive and unforgettable as the two lovers in "Brokeback".This is a beautiful and outstanding film, so it is good to see that 19 of the 24 reviews here (before mine) say that. But it's disturbing that even here on IMDb all 5 negative reviews (below) focus their disdain and hostility on the gay content. One reviewer details his "loathing", dismissing all the rest of us (who like the film) as gay, another calls the film "too gay", another attacks the "sleaze" and "downmarket sex". (There are even a few positive reviews here which go all nervous and jittery about the Ismael/Erwann romance.) Hmmmmmmm! This is the 21st century.Otherwise, "Les Chansons" is remarkable for its vision of Paris, especially the streets of Paris, and of course for ... les chansons. It is a most intriguing, off-beat form of musical - the way in which the actors utter their songs is very different from conventional "singing": to such a degree that one has to pay attention to note that they really ARE singing. But it is in fact real singing, and these are real songs. Songs of love, chansons d'amour.

A great movie. obviously it goes beyond Indian sensibilities but it show how young people deal with relationships.I saw Louis Garrel in 'dreamers' and then I discovered him. he has tremendous screen presence and a special melancholy look in his eyes. He does comic scenes also very good in this movie.it has various sub plots but handles them very well. sub plot of relationship of Julie & Ismael, Their relation with Alice, Julie's relation with her family and her elder sister Jasmine's relation with Ismael. But real gem is acting of Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. I am in love with him....

How to put into words a film with this sensorial density? It's clearly not the simplest task. "Congratulations Christophe Honoré" could be a good approach, maybe the best.As a Portuguese, a traditional nation in the "European standards", I may say that this film surpasses my bounds when speaking of, let's say, "relational experimentalism". Even so, I found it astoundingly beautiful and I guess that picking-up the gay issue would be to diminish a film about life and what we make of it in our nowadays living.To have lived in France for over a year, eventually helped me out to remark some interesting French particularities in the characters.I found the humor in this film to be typically French. There's a scene were Ismael is Wrapping a pillow making a baby of it, asking everybody in the room to remain silent not to wake up the child that had just gotten asleep. Then, unexpectedly, he throws the "baby" right out of the window as he gets tired of the staging. This kind of uncompromising performances, risking the ridiculous, were undoubtedly a "déjà vu" for me.The music is also a key element in the film and gives it a Parisian melancholical aura. The music is often used by 2 or more characters in the form of a dialog where they show their feelings and points of view. As they sing, the scenes are incredible well filmed either outdoor, in the endless avenues of Paris, or indoor in the cosiness of a warm bed in a cold winter night. Sometimes I felt as I was one of the characters right in the scene.The anguish, the indecision and above all, the solitude are the marking subjects in a film that exposes in a crude manner how individualistic the society is becoming in France, and why not, in Europe.It's a contemporary (timeless?) film about human relationships. In my opinion, the antithesis of the blockbuster cinema: The extravagance is replaced by beauty, the free nudity is replaced by sensuality and the easy laugh is avoided. The dialogs are intelligent, complex and they have ambiguous interpretation.At the end of the movie, a phrase synthesizes it all: "Love me less but for a long time".To assume the compromise revoking the emotional hurricane brought by fleeting relations will bring peace, at last.

DEFINITE SPOILERS--GIVES AWAY THE ENDING TOO.This takes place in Paris (it's subtitled). There's three people who are sleeping and having sex together--Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), Alice (Clotilde Hesme) and Ismael (Louis Garrel). Then Julie dies suddenly of a blood clot. Alice seems to move on but Louis can't. Then a handsome young gay man named Erwann (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls in love with him. They have sex but is it what Ismael wants? The ending has a passionate kiss between Ismael and Erwann so I think they end up together.I'm going to ignore some of the homophobic reviews this movies has gotten. It's really sad in this day and age that people get so upset by seeing guys hug and kiss (by the way there's no explicit sex or gratuitous nudity here--unless you count the quick look at Erwann's butt). I found the movie involving and beautiful to watch. Also the gay sex and characters are handled realistically without dragging in stereotypes or offensive remarks. Even better it shows the main character getting over his loss. Sure, it's with a guy. So? That shouldn't be such a big deal. The sequence where the two guys start kissing and undressing to have sex is easily the most erotic and moving part of the movie. All the acting is good and everybody can sing. The songs fit the story perfectly. To be honest they're unmemorable but none of them are bad. This seems to mirror (in structure) "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". It's in three sections like that movie but, other than that, the movie is totally different. It might not mean anything but I noticed it. This was barely released in the US (the ending might have something to do with that) but I caught it on the Sundance channel and LOVED it. Well worth catching but if you're a homophobic jerk don't bother.