ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

kendallinsd I watch a lot of foreign language films, and appreciate that many of them don't follow typical cinematic formulas. I've really enjoyed the majority of the foreign films I've seen; I think this is the only one I really did not like. I had high hopes for the film, but it moves soooo slowly, with so much time spent getting nowhere in terms of plot or character development, that it became a chore to get to the end.Fortunately, I was somewhat rewarded for watching to the end, because the storyline became relatively more interesting in the last 10 or 15 minutes of the movie. Unfortunately, by then I had lost interest in the characters, so the mystery surrounding them lost its 'punch'. I found the characters themselves to be uncompelling. The actors' performances didn't draw me in; even the lovely Ms. Beart failed to pull me into the story.I was literally shocked to see that the first rating I came across after viewing this film was a 10. I guess this is the kind of film you either love or hate. I rarely write reviews here, but I felt compelled to warn others that they might want to bypass this film. It is easily the most boring film I've seen in years.

scotti2hotti This film was screened at the 2004 Melbourne International Film Festival. I have a fondness for French film and especially the babe-a-licious Emmanuelle Beart (even though the last film I saw of hers "Nathalie" was dreadful) so there seem to be enough reason to view The History Of Marie & Julien. An hour into the film, I was exiting the cinema (which is the first time in ages I've walked out on a film). Who knows, maybe the film came to life in the hour and a half I didn't watch. What I do know is this film was the single most boring film I'd seen during the festival. Instead of being a ponderous, pseudo-intellectual and glossy piece of cinema you'd find between the pages of a coffee table book, maybe someone should have written a decent script.

emlendupom Hard to say why, but European directors seem to age far more gracefully thanAmerican ones. While Robert "Human Stain" Benton, Clint "Mystic River"Eastwood and Woody "Anything Else" Allen have shown signs of becomingprematurely obsolete, Rivette continues to turn out vital, thought-provokingcinema that looks to be the work of a man half his age. Gorgeously shot, deftly acted, and cleverly scripted, this thoughtful meditation on love is an elegant jewel.

jean-claude primeau A great disappointment. Jacques Rivette has made some very interesting films in his long career, my favourite being Jeanne la Pucelle. Unfortunately, this effort has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The characters are not believable and hold no interest. The dialogue is incoherent and does not hold interest. This film is two and a half hour long and becomes quickly unbearable. I left at the halfway mark (I rarely leave before the end of a movie). Perhaps it might have improved later on but it seemed highly unlikely at the time.