TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Brennan Camacho
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Paynbob
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
LuisaContini14
I loved this film. It is such a great story told beautifully. I don't want to say too much because I think it's better to let the film take you on its journey but it is supremely acted by Marion Cotillard who wholly inhabits Gabrielle and Alex Brudenmahel was just a revelation. He says so much without saying much at all. I would recommend that you skip the critics reviews and just watch the film and judge for yourself.
roninthewild
Luckily, I didn't read the critics first, as I often do.The movie's rhythm is subtle and ultimately powerful. Big surprise is the performance of Alex Brendemühl as Jose, unforgettable. It is a story of love that can stay with you a long time. Bravo, Nicole Garcia.
gradyharp
French actress/director Nicole Garcia (Going Away, Little Lilli, Place Vendôme, A View of Love) has transformed Sardinian author Milena Agus' novel 'Mal di pietre' ('disease of kidney stones'), with the assistance of Natalie Carter and Jacques Fieschi, into a staggeringly creative and hauntingly beautiful film that deals with passion and deep seated imagination. It is another showcase for the brilliant actress Marion Cotillard.Gabrielle (Marion Cotillard) comes from a small village in the South of France, at a time when her dream of true love is considered scandalous, and even a sign of insanity. Her parents marry her to José (Alex Brendemühl), an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her. Despite José's devotion to her, Gabrielle vows that she will never love José and lives like a prisoner bound by the constraints of conventional post-World War II society until the day she is sent away to a cure in Switzerland to heal her kidney stones. There she meets André Sauvage (Louis Garrel), a dashing injured veteran of the Indochinese War, who rekindles the passion buried inside her. She promises they will run away together, and André seems to share her desire. Gabrielle is released from the spa, pregnant and convinced André is the father, and the child Marc develops into a fine concert pianist. But even the most beautiful of love affairs can be altered by a mind in need of guidance and the story ends with surprising changes that make us realize we have been a part of Gabrielle's insanity. Beautifully filmed and rich in fine acting, this is a quiet film that seeps into our psyche as we feel the vagaries of a tenuously intact mind. A brilliant film. Grady Harp, July 17
Emre Kayhan (mrkyhn)
Although I knew what I would encounter, I watched the movie. I believe that if I take part in general impressions, I need to make a few words.First, there is a theme problem in the film. So when the film goes to the next scene, it leaves behind the previous problems and problems are accumulating. Naturally the stream is deteriorating. Secondly, the movie contains more than one movie. This is not something that can not be done, but this movie can not do it. This is a mistake made to create a plot twist. Finally, the film is far from cinematography. In the first twenty minutes there are worthwhile images, but then the film leaves it. Despite everything, Marion Cotillard is great again.It is not a film that does not appreciate what you get because you have nothing to gain.
