SummaryRoland (Brad Pitt), an American writer, and his wife, Vanessa (Angelina Jolie), arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis. As they spend time with fellow travelers, including young newlyweds Lea (Melanie Laurent) and François (Melvil Poupaud) and village locals Michel (Niels Ar...
SummaryRoland (Brad Pitt), an American writer, and his wife, Vanessa (Angelina Jolie), arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis. As they spend time with fellow travelers, including young newlyweds Lea (Melanie Laurent) and François (Melvil Poupaud) and village locals Michel (Niels Ar...
At first luxurious blush it’s a jet-setting marital melodrama, one of those he-said, she-said (and wept) encounter sessions decked with designer shades, to-die-for digs and millionaire tears. More interestingly, the movie, which Ms. Jolie Pitt wrote and directed, is a knowing or at least a ticklishly amusing demonstration of celebrity and its relay of gazes from one of the most looked-at women in the world.
It's not the greatest movie of the century, but I yet can't understand why the critics hate it! For sure, it's not something that everybdy can understand but for the art-house cinema lovers it's a masterpiece.From the first moment you can see the efforts of the people. It's not worth a 10/10 but right now it feels like justice.
"By the Sea" is an amazing work of art for the fans of indie cinema. The atmosphere of the mid-70s, the soundtrack, the amazing places of Malta, the dramatic acting constitute a movie that is going to seduce you.
The result is something like a weepy Lifetime melodrama told in the languorous, self-indulgent style of European art cinema, as if Michelangelo Antonioni or Bernardo Bertolucci had wound up in debt to multiple ex-wives and were forced to churn out straight-to-cable movies, circa 1986.
In addition to starring, Jolie Pitt wrote and directed By the Sea. She has given herself relatively little dialogue, but stuck her husband with lines like “Stop acting like this!” and “You resist happiness!”
If By the Sea weren’t so aggressively humorless, it might almost qualify as camp, so unsuccessful is its pursuit of weighty drama. Unintentional laughs are hard to come by here; instead, there are yawns aplenty.
Had to watch this to see how the Brangelina miracle ended. Not well, had its moments but in the end fleeting.
They both had cliched problems and its like, if you're going to be all beautiful doing beautiful things in beautiful places next door to other beautiful people, then at least be somewhat self-aware. Like watch a movie, read some literature, develop some empathy, do something other than whine about your problems like no one else has ever had them before.
These vanity projects never really work out. They generate good press and all but was there every any true love involved? I'm just saying, we could have avoided all this if everyone involved would have seen this coming like the rest of us did. Things that are too good to be true, are, you know, exactly that. We watch movies, that's how we know.
You look at viewer critiques of movies like this and you get furious at metacritic and imdb for allowing 20-year-old high-school dropouts onto their sites. Why not invite Angela Merkel's one million refugees while they're at it? This time only the professionals seemed to get it: Jolie, who also wrote, has clearly tried to evoke an early 1970s European film, a marital drama set in that time period in Europe. For the most part she succeeds in setting the mood and slow pace, and it's pretty to look at in 1080p with the Mediterranean shore and all. We can make what we will of the couple's subsequent breakup in real life, but in any case the film is both too languid and sometimes overblown for the arc surprise.
Boring sums it up nicely. I actually dozed off a couple of times watching this movie. Beautiful imagery, decent acting, obscure message if there even is one.
all the bickering and jealousy..
By The Sea
By The Sea is a character driven romantic drama about a couple whose honeymoon goes haywire after jealousy and treachery gets in between them. The chemistry fuels this overridden drama to reach newer territories without fumbling where the audience wouldn't mind taking a ride along with them, no matter how annoying the couple grows with all the bickering and jealousy. But, even as strong as chemistry like such could never replace the substance over style. And the primary reason why the feature is stuck on a dull loop, is because of the genre of the premise. It requires the weaving of the structure in front of the audience and it is such poorly written with no bars held, that emotions set out were so not what the emotions come out. The narration is dry with probably somewhat gripping screenplay that too wears out latter, as the policies grows pretentious, the gist loud and the emotions shallow. The background score may as well be non existent on terms of its factoring, the cinematography is redundant along with poor editing and on the up side it has stunning visuals, live locations and is beautifully shot. Pitt is more "Mr. And Mrs. Smith"-y than when he was in it, whilst Jolie is milking way too much to keep the crisp alive. The talent that actually goes waste by is Laurent that is convincing on her supporting role. Jolie's execution has definitely improved a lot, but the script is the actual culprit in here that holds the ideology narrower and keeps it intact of its self-created pathos scrutiny. The chemistry among the lead cast, few one liners and visual aesthetics are the only high points of the feature. By The Sea is a bore; I'll just say it straight out, it is a bore to a point where even the somewhat visible craft isn't appreciative.