Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

gavin6942 A nine-year-old boy disappears without a trace. Six years later, he reappears in Paris but there are doubts about his real identity. The film entered the competition at the 49th Venice International Film Festival and won an award at the 1992 Valladolid International Film Festival.I don't really have much to say about this film. Having now seen about half of the director's work, I would not go so far as to say I am a fan. Some of it, like "Angry Harvest", I thought was really good. But then we have this film, which never really held my attention. Some of the early scenes are good with the children interacting, but it becomes much less interesting once Olivier (if that is really him) appears as an adult.

writers_reign I'm surprised that none of the previous posters has mentioned the glaring connection to Martin Guerre, in fact given that the protagonist is a child rather than an adult it could almost be called Martin Guerre lite. This is not to disparage an excellent film in which Brigitte Rouan stands out in the midst of some extremely fine performances. As her Christian name indicates Agnieszka Holland is actually Polish, born in Warsaw, trained in Czeckoslovakia and there is something fitting about this in a film where things are not always what they seem. The 'logical' questions that occur - for example when he is first noticed by the cop who investigated his disappearance six years earlier the youth could have no idea of who he resembled yet when questioned he is able to state categorically that he had no brothers, only a sister named Nadine. It's straining credulity to the utmost to accept that a male prostitute living presumably on the streets would have 1) read about the case when he himself was only six and 2) retained such explicit factual detail - are more or less swept aside by the high quality directing and acting on display. A fine film.

ckmercuri Of all the French films I have seen so far, this one succeeds the most in creating a mood the French are known for doing so well: a sense of melancholy. After watching this film at the young age of 16, I was immediately taken in and mystified. After watching many other films, I can still say that this is one of my favorite films.

fleagles Interesting and slightly odd film about a son who disappears from his French family. He has a somewhat Oedipal relationship with his mother, and the family is very dysfunctional. Years later, he returns, but questions are raised if he is the real young man. The family drama is good and well-acted, but contains some truly bizarre subplots, such as the daughter's ability to levitate objects. The film also leaves some major perplexing questions regarding the boy, which I will not reveal. Nevertheless, an interesting and different film.