SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

aethomson This is another take on "Romeo and Juliet". Prokofiev did it as ballet. Bernstein did it as musical. Zeffirelli and Luhrmann did it as movies. Tim van Dammen has filmed it as New Zealand rock opera.Gypsy curse, very Shakespeare. Sharp combinations of alternating poignant tenderness and cynical exploitation, very Globe Theatre. Pixie-faced Lizzie Brochere with the huge eyes, very Juliet. So where are the warring families, the Montagues and Capulets? They are America and France, different ways of seeing life. They are the English language and the French language, different ways of expressing life. And they don't need to be anywhere out there, because they are inside us. From the moment of our conception, from the moment of our birth, we start accumulating individuality and baggage, individuality and baggage that are going to make love impossible - or at the very least, difficult. We are all star-cross'd lovers.The problem with living more than four hundred years after Romeo first delivered the line: "If I profane with my unworthiest hand..." is how to make a doomed love credible, how to make us the audience care about the lovers and what they feel and what happens to them, and how to make it all look original, how to make it look archetypal but at the same time new. This film succeeds.

volk_stepni They say art is meant to make you feel (and think). If you are going to watch this movie, you will feel.. something. So, there is an art in this movie. But on the other hand, you can take a hammer and hit you fingers with it and you will definitely feel something to. Is this art? Hurting your self with an object? According to some… it is. Just take a look at so called "performances".This movie is just like that. Artsy, self indulged performance. What is wrong with it? Let me quote Robin Skynner & John Cleese (yes, that guy from: Monty Python, Fawlty Tower, A Fished Called Wanda etc.) 2nd book – FAMILIES and how to survive them:John – Interesting. Well I'm not going to try to argue the merits of emotional dependence, because I've been so completely converted to your point of view, that all I seem to observe now is how much unhappiness the idealisation of dependence brings. Just take the Great Love Stories – Romeo and Juliet, La Traviata, Anna Karenina, Carmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Aida, Doctor Zhivago, Tristan and Isolde, Brief Encounter. Mention them to people and a dreamy radiance passes across their face and they say: "Oh, they're wonderful aren't they, so romantic." Well, they are not wonderful. They are tales of almost unmitigated misery. There's not ten minutes of good, everyday happiness and fun in any of them. The lovers usually get one dollop of over-the-top ecstasy and apart from that it's wall-to-wall suffering. They get stabbed, walled up in tombs, they throw themselves and die of consumption or renounce each other in agony. They're convinced they can only find happiness choose on grounds of unavailability. So, Doctor, why do you think all this dependence and its consequent suffering is equated with true love?Robin – Well, after all, the first love we experience, for our mothers, is like that. At the beginning of our lives we are completely dependent, so we do suffer badly if mother isn't there when we need her. And though we'll naturally always need love and support, if we don't grow out of this kind of childish demand we'll go on treating our lovers in the same way, trying to make them care for us like parents and feeling threatened when they don't.John – And this kind of love makes us feel 'special', doesn't it? As babies do, with all that exclusive attention. But really healthy families obviously don't believe that suffering adds significance to their lives.Robin – No. As they're not so needy, they won't need to justify childish demands by suffering terribly when they aren't met. (Page 13-14)Now add to this psychological profile "50 shades of Grey" type of complete misunderstanding what is BDSM all about… you get: After Fall Winter.My proposal: Please, use hammer instead. It's much quicker, it will save you time for the same effect – pain with no meaning (other than faulty misuse of handy tool). And as a matter of fact, there is no blame in it. Even the greatest minds of this planet hit themselves with a hammer, from time to time. You might even get a Newtonian "Eureka!" moment while suffering :)

markmenachem-621-220699 Lizzie Brochere was just about perfect. With her excellent command of the English language that sometimes needed subtle correction, to her vulnerability and an inner sadness that made you want to hold and protect her, she was great. I would see anything she was in. Her counterpart, writer/director Schaeffer, was annoying. As a struggling, depressed, overly self-absorbed writer, he apparently had one extremely successful novel and could never achieve the same level of success again. Lizzie relates that she did read his novel and found it wonderful, revealing an intimate, sensitive, honest portrait of the writer. Somehow, the qualities that he exhibited back then were long gone. He was anything but lovable, happy, confident or worthy of this much younger woman's love and admiration. Also, he was broke and owed hundreds of thousands of dollars and still had the use of a dozen credit cards. The teenage girl that Lizzie was caring for was also excellent. As for the gypsy woman and her young son, they were very believable to me. If you are depressed or impatient, do not watch this movie, unless you cheer up when you see that other people can be a lot more screwed up than you are.

thebiddler-2 Mix the raw emotion and psychological disturbance of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club with a story of romance and love and this is what you get. A Romeo and Juliet for the minds who grew up reading A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest while going through their educational careers being numbed by the despair of the writing and music of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, or Stabbing Westward, to I'm a Barbie Girl and Marilyn Manson. With unemployment and fiscal trouble running rampant and mass shootings on the television daily, this is a story of love that can speak to a generation who may never have known what the words "I love you" meant. This was truly an original film and I will be looking out for this writer in the future.