Reviews

What can I say about such an overrated movie on my side of the Ocean? If I can understand why it was in the official selection of the last Cannes Film Festival (boring as hell and without any plot), why the actresses so excited the journalists is still a mystery. Ludivine Sanier always sucked in French (how can such an act even be called an act?), but there, in English, she might compete for the raspberry award next year!!! I hope that's the only award she'll ever have with this production.

I won't speak here about the plot or the boring pace of the film, it looked like an intellectual exercise that surely excited Ozon himself, but he lost me in it. And the last image of this film shows clearly that he wasn't even sure someone in the audience might understand his point.

Why did I see this film, then? well, I simply hoped that French directors could still do good thrillers, like we saw with "The Bride wore black", "The Butcher" or "One deadly summer". the answer is clearly no.

When I saw this was a movie produced by Luc Besson, I was reluctant to see it, because his choices are obviously not mine. But the topics and the Canadian location made me see it anyway. And, for the first time, a Besson production (through his company Europa Corp.) is a movie worth seeing! Amazing! Of course, you can't go without the obsessive Asian sub-plot Besson seems to put in all the movies he produced (is it in the writer's contract to add it???), but the slow pace of action and the ethereal music takes you in quite an interesting universe.

A good surprise, then, that I don't recommend to fans of other Besson productions (Watch out: No martial arts and no poor dialogs in this movie!!!).