Alicia I love this movie so much

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

SnoopyStyle Hollywood star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) lives an empty life at the L.A. hotel Château Marmont. He often has blonde twins Bambi and Cindy perform pole-dancing in his room. His daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) joins him for an extended visit. He does publicity with his co-star (Michelle Monaghan) who hates him. He brings Cleo along to continue his publicity tour in Italy.Sofia Coppola has mastered the sense of boredom. Some may see a connection to 'Lost in Translation'. While it has the same sense of disconnection, this is missing a few important things. It doesn't have the quiet comedic sensibility from Bill Murray. Dorff is doing this very straight and rather boring. It doesn't have the exotic sense despite supposedly being in Italy for a time. The biggest missed opportunity is the father daughter relationship. It should be more emotional and something bigger. Elle Fanning has the skills to pull it off but it's not until the last act when anything actually happens.

Narjes Alnemer When i watched the trailer i thought the movie is going to be about the relationship of a father and his daughter but i was very wrong, The movie is about a man admitting he's depressed and in need for help.Our man here is Johnny Marco played by Stephen Dorff, is an actor who lives in a hotel away from his divorced wife and his daughter Cleo played by Ellen Fanning. The movie is in three parts each one adding to the character of who Johnny is or rather what Johnny is going through and feeling. The first part shows Johnny watching two strippers in his bedroom and falling asleep, he goes to parties that he clearly isn't enjoying, drinking, doing drugs and having sex all of that without the slightest hint of pleasure. All what seem to be the source of pleasure to people is an act of habit to him, he hooks up with so many beautiful women but it seems like he does it out of need rather than desire. We see how empty his inside is, how colorless is his fame, how uninterested he is in everything that is his life. All of that is obvious through Coppola's stunning directing we see Johnny in the middle of a big room, everything seems to be moving but him, people talk but he doesn't join in, the sounds are always distant and he is not participating in making them.The second part of the film we see him with his daughter Cleo who is spending time with him while her mother is away, their relationship is sweet, it's definitely not the best but they have their moments where they have peace in silence, we only see him active mentally with his daughter. He's not completely present though, he's still depressed but being with a loved one for some quality time is able to bring a very little piece of himself back to life. When they go to Italy together we see them watching Friends in the foreign language, and that shows how out of place they are, he is a stranger to his work and she is a stranger to this life though she seems to be coping with it better than her father. In another scene Johnny is presenting a show in Italian and suddenly women around him start to dance and he's awkwardly standing in the middle, again a stranger to his work. While Cleo laughs and smiles at him, that's where he smiles back opening more to the idea of enjoying things.The third part is where Cleo goes to camp and Johnny tries to tell her something about how he cares for her but it's blocked by the sound of helicopter behind him and he's not brave enough to repeat his feelings and he kind of blames his life for it. Then we see where he loses it, he has been so used to depression for so long that he forgot there's a life beyond that, a life that his daughter reminded him existed. And now for the first time we see him looking for it, calling a friend crying telling her there's nothing to do and struggling with expressing himself, we see Johnny rides to somewhere in despair sick of being depressed. That's where the movie ends showing the whole picture of Johnny Marco's experience. This is how Coppola works, she shows you a bit by bit of this painting that is beautiful but you don't know where it's going or how to feel about it exactly, but in the end you get the whole picture and you're stunned of how meaningful and beautiful it is and leaving you feel like you've been there the whole time seeing how it has been painted.

elainegrant This movie is akin to watching paint dry. We kept waiting for something, anything to happen! LA did look very nice but that wasn't enough to carry this sad, hopeless film. The ending was totally nonsensical and made me mad that I just wasted 90 minutes of my life. Would have been infinitely better had it ended with him picking up his daughter from camp and making a life with her. But I guess no one wanted this loving, beautiful young girl! Instead we get the lead character leaving his car by the side of the road and walking off into the desert. Ridiculous way to end a movie. This could have been a good movie but instead it just sucked!

Leila Cherradi This movie is good for anyone interested in acting. In the reality of acting. Not the lies (dreams) that are usually given to us to feel good. Or just stoned. No. Here is indeed a film that seems boring. It seems so boring that when it ends you may wonder what you've been looking at. And I guess that's the expected effect. Y'see, what is usually sold to us is that actors lead a wonderful life, just because they get money and a job that sustains their ego. But doesn't a 'wonderful' life depend on what acting you do? On what kind of movie you do for a living? and why? I won't spoil the movie. But this movie is a good movie. It is a movie that stops the illusion that actors are somehow living on a better planet. They're not. And there is a perversion in this society about actors, showing them as more important or interesting than a lambda person, even more intelligent, so intelligent that we would ask serious questions about the world to an actor. Again, certain actors are intelligent, others are less... That movie, as well as 'Ellie Parker' that I just saw, is a movie that may ask us : why the hell are we so deluded by the cinematographic medium and what do we wanna eat for movies? I would add a little precise note to end this critic : someone here criticized certain scenes for showing a not so well done activity, but the way that activity is showed is just the way I can imagine it would be if I saw it in reality. And that shows that we are so trained to nice pictures,nice prestations, as if everyone always has to be perfectly dressed,haired, has to make all perfect moves, etc. We don't like to look at reality!