NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

mathnucl (spoiler) The movie gives a beautiful picture of a mother-daughter relationship over a long period of time. However the ending (same as in the book) seemed contrived to me, as if the writers had decided they had run on long enough, so they kill off the daughter. A more natural approach would have been to continue until the grandchildren are adult and the daughter (long since divorced) moves in with her mother. The main difficulty would be that the movie would be three hours long at least.

Moviecritic Some of the people that give this 1 or 2 stars are just ridiculous. The acting is great, the story is great and there are plenty of moments that makes this movie nowhere near a 1-2 star.Don't take those ridiculous reviews serious. Some of the same people that have this at 1 star has Anchorman at 10 stars. Go figure.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues This story is about ordinary people like us...who living a normal life or a real life...whats it's about...because this movie was crowned by Oscar and of course Shirley & Nicholson....each single movie of Nicholson have an special Midas touch, changing in a simple character on a big acting a few can be comparing Nicholson nowadays....Then this movie had a special treatment by the people who love this kind of story where they...laughing...crying...suffering and fighting for life like anybody else!!!

pbraham If it's possible to make watching this dismal film any worse: my review may contain spoilers.There are no likable or even comprehensible characters in this film to relate to or identify with. They are all shallow people whose banal lives bear no examination. None of them learn anything during the course of the film, and neither do we.Sadly there isn't much of a story either. A girl is born, lives an unremarkable life and dies young. I cheered when she finally died and hoped all the other characters would die too.Possibly this film is a subtle observation of what the empty lives of narcissistic people are like - perhaps, as such, it is intended to be boring and obscure, in which case it is a clever work of art and may serve as a warning to us all.My warning, though, is: don't waste your time.