BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Boris Todorov Some years ago Sophie Marceau explained her move to Hollywood in more or less the following terms: I am tired of doing the same French movies where all in all there is a love triangle and in the end the three of them have dinner together. Well, Va savoir is exactly that kind of movie. It is more complicated because there are actually four love triangles, but yes, they all have a cake to share in the end; all the six people who were involved in the triangles. So nothing new here. The good thing, however, are the characters. Except for the brother-and-sister duo who are kind of stereotypical and possibly present the spectator with the cliché of male and female libertine Parisians, the other two couples arouse our curiosity with their insufficiencies: Camille is a little too absent-minded to be completely sane, Pierre is a typical academic dork who falls into furies of sophisticated frustration, Ugo visibly carries the burden of his unattractive appearance and compensates for it with his thick Italian accent, while Sonia obstinately tries to keep to the level of those intellectual pricks and prove how much more she knows about real life. This is a good melodrama if you like the genre. I do, and I liked it. Marceau probably wouldn't.

Nice Guy I think this is a typical French author movie (read: pleases only its author :) where part of the audience will walk out, part will stay totally annoyed, and some will love it thinking it's of the greatest insight, overall not generating much revenue.Plot: A small troupe of Franco-Italian actors present a new theater piece in Paris, with moderate success. Off scene, we follow the lead French actress and the Italian director who are married. She hooks up with her ex, he searches for a manuscript and the story develops from there...There is no plot per say, but rather a microcosm of people floating in a fish tank: it's a study of characters. I guess the movie is about relationships and 'love'. A few things annoyed me, there are quite a few actors who act really bad (ie they act as if at a theater, with voice intonation and expression of feelings totally off). There is some sort of mini action going on, but nothing leads to anything. There is a few spots where the action is absurd (characters attach to each other artificially act or find things or change behavior the same way). The end is totally stupid (IMHO) because the state of some of the characters is unfinished.The few things I liked are the women attraction: the younger one is very attractive, the actress and dancer are too, though it's partly because of their awkward detached personalities. I've been told the guys are unremarkable, sorry ladies :)Overall it might have been OK as a simple theater piece but as a movie it's quite boring and condescendent.

xenakaboom I caught this film on HBO West on a snow day here on the US East Coast, and found that after the first half hour, I started understanding the French dialogue without the subtitles, because the actors kept repeating OVER AND OVER AND OVER! And, as anyone can tell, I do not speak French, although I have some French Foreign Legionnaire in my unpruned family tree. But, I digress. Initially, I thought the film resembled the Spanish style, with the multiplicity of female characters and emasculated men, mais no! It is French, through and through.While traveling through Maryland a few years back, I heard a radio station jingle that said: Just because it's old doesn't mean its a classic! Substitute "French" for "old", and there you have my review in a nutshell.

rosscinema After watching this film I had to wonder one thing. Why was this over two and half hours long? A very simple and pedestrian story of a few relationships between a group of adults. Nothing out of the ordinary or unique about the story and it's woefully too long! I did like all the actors especially Jeanne Balibar who is the central character but I would like them even more in a more interesting film and the main problem comes from the fact that the script doesn't really let viewers know who these characters really are and instead the focus is just on their immediate problems. This had the real potential of being something really interesting but unfortunately the story doesn't allow for some needed details.