A unique, energetic, shape-shifting masterpiece - any time you think you're about to get a comfortable handle on it, it peels back a layer. For every second of its two and a half hours, it kept me glued to my seat (and it was a particularly exhausting day). The entire cast is wonderful (though Emmanuelle Devos is clearly rising to Goddess status now) and there's too many wonderfully imaginative scenes to name here - but I particularly loved the dream sequences, the dead father's revelation and the convenience store robbery. It's a bizarrely funny, profoundly moving, great great picture.… Expand

Disappointing and boring.

Arnaud Desplechin is a very special director who shows a lot of respect for his audience. Worth even a second viewing and maybe a third, to soak all of this movie in.

A major disappointment -- fatally overlong and grossly melodramatic. I give it a 4 instead of a 1 because of the work of the actorrs, who are this film's saving grace.

This is one the best film I have seen this year: moving, complex and deeply enriching.

I walked out.

One of the best movies of the year.

Best movie of the year, easily.

Boring, awful, tedious, pointless, the critics who liked it are either lying or saw a different film.

Perhaps my "art film" brain muscle has atrophied, but I just did not get this. About half way through it stopped making sense and I stopped caring. Then it ends with about ten minutes of pure blather.

Fantastic, multi layered complex film. full of emotion. superb performances.

A little too messy, and despite the devastating reversals, still too sentimental. I looked over Andrew O'Hehir's review after watching this, curious to see why someone could love it so much. It's clear the man is completely infatuated with the lead actress. "We bow to her superiority, yearn for her destruction and marvel at her resiliency..." ??? Well, Andy does, but not me. I thought Mathieu Amalric's character was far more interesting - he starts out as an annoying, arrogant flake but matures a great deal throughout the picture. Not bad, but overrated.… Expand

I purchased this move based on the high score from critics. Mistake! Halfway into this film, it became unwatchable. I wanted to enjoy it but came away feeling let down. There were moments of good drama and some funny scenes but overall it seemed to lack a cohesive storyline and became a disjointed movie. Definitely not on par with some good French cinema.

The subtitles are in white and very difficult to read in many scenes. The film was very 'French' but that alone doesn't make it a fine film.

Tedious, some good acting, story uninvolving, no movement towards a point or reason. All in all, un depense du temps.

The beginning to the middle was tolerable, at times even interesting but towards the end became quite torturous and I was relieved when it was over, not sure what the whole mess was about, it felt very disjointed.