Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
ciaopeche
The film's honesty can at times be hilarious, sensual, and painful. As you watch the lively young couple from act 1 morph into something unrecognizable, you can't help but feel despair. Only once the couple has reached rock-bottom can they begin to re-emerge, learning how to become themselves again. As Nico attempts to become the breadwinner, he slowly becomes cold and callous, unsympathetic to Barb and nothing like his former self. Barb becomes isolated, barely talking to her friends and even Nico, making Lea her life. Louise Bourgoin does a wonderful job of expressing the anguish her character feels, through blank stares and tears. I love the way this film explores postpartum depression in a real way, and how as the characters gradually have their love drained out of them, so does the color and light of the film, leaving only a blue-gray tone. Only when Barb begins to heal with the help of her mother, and Nico's gradual understanding of Barb's pain as he attempts to fulfill Barb's former role does warmth enter the screen again, signaling a new beginning for both her and Nico. A simple story in the sense it is a common occurrence in life, but extremely well executed.
SnoopyStyle
Barbara Dray (Louise Bourgoin) is a grad student writing her PHD thesis on her way to being a professor assistant. She encounters video store clerk Nicolas Malle (Pio Marmaï) and they start flirting with movie titles. She gets pregnant. They have a girl naming her Lea, not Martha. Barb's irreverent mom dismisses the perfect mother idea. Barb struggles with raising Lea as it comes to a head.This has a reality and some funny moments. Bourgoin is a tall gorgeous model with some comedic chops. The story has a little bit of sadness and plenty of the struggles of child-raising. The movie opens with a very pregnant Barb unable to get comfortable. While it's a funny bit, it does indicate the moment when the movie should start to finish, and it's not. After she gives birth, the movie keeps going. It feels run-on. It might be better to foreshadow a moment later on in the movie. Overall, it has compelling everywoman story done with sincerity, comedy, and poetry.
Anton L
This is one the best movies I've seen since a long time! The synopsis says it, this is the essential stuff happening to everybody in daily life but no great philosopher or whoever seems to be able to understand. This film somehow comforted me and triggered me to deal with the last ten years of my life in quite an amazing manner. In modern society the event of birth is so overwhelming in so many positive and negative ways that small isolated families are severely shaken up by it. Post natal depressions should not be rare and affect both members of the couple. Even though the movie is not always that easy to look at, the images, colors, music and humoristic moments, it is all just perfect. I do not see any reason not to give this one a huge ten. Thanks!
bdugan-380-186048
Why has this movie not been made already? Its such a believable, everyday story, and it shows the way life really is. Two people meet, they have a sweet courting period, they're perfect together, they have a baby. And then its like two new people that have to start over with a new set of tough constraints & pressures. But they muddle along and work together, on the baby and on their own lives at the same time.I thought this was an extremely well conveyed telling of a story that we all know, but that can't be told too often. Every instance of it is unique, but with universal themes.I enjoyed the drama-less drama of this movie: life itself in its mundane details is so dramatic!
