Console best movie i've ever seen.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

the_ache This film truly is a work of art. And like all art, it's formalized; it doesn't even try to hide its formalism. The shots are squared and rigid, the duologue goes in circles, and there's a certain paralellism to the entire picture. It's not meant to be realistic, but like in all great art, it's by codifying and simplifying that deeper truths are revealed.Despite its minimalism, I was caught up in this film because the duologue is entrancing, the atmosphere is palpable, and the characters act in such mysterious (yet somehow consistent) ways that even though there are certain patterns to the behaviour, you never really know what's coming next. I suppose this film is a comedy, although you won't find yourself laughing much. It's more a case of being too absurd to be considered a serious, straightforward drama."Gouttes d'Eau" is not perfect (whit is?), but it has a certain "je ne sais quoi" lending it a uniqueness that places it in my Top 20. Definitely entrancing and thoroughly thought-provoking.

TxMike I like the occasional foreign film, they tend to be short and crisply edited, and with an unusual point of view. This one has all those characteristics, and is barely 80 minutes long. It all takes place in one small apartment. Two of the characters assume a homosexual relationship, but when Anna shows up, she is not shocked. She looks at it as one of two possible choices, and she is determined to get her guy back. After all, she has plans for marriage, a house, and children. So, the characters aren't treated as 'gay' or as 'straight', simply as being capable of having relationships with both sexes.Bernard Giraudeau plays 50-year-old Léopold, who looks younger than his age. (In reality, he was already past 50.) He meets 20-year-old Franz (Malik Zidi), invites him to his modest apartment, where they have a few drinks before Leopold propositions him. Franz wasn't looking for that, but it seems to fit his situation, even though he had a girlfriend, Anna (very cute and sexy Ludivine Sagnier). Months go by, Leopold goes off a week at a time on business, Franz assumes the housewife role. They eventually get into petty little arguments that all couples seem to.When Anna comes to town and calls, then drops in for a visit, she isn't angry or hurt that Franz would turn to a man, but she still loves Franz and is determined to get him back. An old boyfriend of Leopold's, now a woman after a sex change operation, also returns to complicate the situation. The whole movie is done in a somewhat whimsical style, definitely a comedy, but with some dark undertones. Sagnier spends a good bit of her time without clothes and she is strikingly attractive, with or without clothes. SPOILERS. Franz is caught between loving Leopold and wanting to make Anna happy. He finds some poison in the medicine cabinet, takes it, and dies on the floor.

halliwell I've never been a big Fassbinder fan but with the coming retrospective I thought it was time to check him out again. So I chose this movie, since it was a Fassbinder script directed by a Frenchman (Ozon) that I admire. It was a delight. Somehow the problems I always had enjoying Fassbinder (the intense cruelty between his characters, the disorienting emotional mood swings, the bleak, dreary German atmosphere) were completely offset by the sense of play and love of color and music that Ozon brings to this script. As in 8 Women, his sense of style and beauty rival Almodovar's and even the grim reality of Fassbinder has a beautiful, chic French gloss. He understands that love and sex in Fassbinder are closely matched with jealousy and destruction. It all clicked for me. And the omnisexuality is so fresh - so unspoiled... That said, it's a devastating critique of what lovers can do to each other. But it's,...well...so pretty...I really, really enjoyed it.

raymond-15 The film version of Fassbinder's play retains the theatrical structure with 4 acts, 4 actors and 4 great performances. The dialogue wins you over at once and keeps you in rapt attention hanging on every word. Leopold a persuasive self-indulgent bi-sexual restructures the lives of 3 people as he introduces them to new sexual adventures. First there's Franz a good-looking 20 year old who is contemplating marriage with his girlfriend Anna. He becomes confused about love when he has a homosexual dream which Leopold is only too happy to recreate once he has enticed the somewhat inexperienced Franz into his bed. Then there's Anna who is agreeably surprised at the change in Franz's sexual attitude. She too is overwhelmed by Leopold's advances towards her. Thirdly there's Vera - now a woman, once a man - Leopold's ex-lover perhaps more confused and disappointed than any of them. It's an entertaining romp as we watch the hand of experience "create" new lives for each of them. Leopold always in search of novelty knows what each victim is yearning for and he is only too ready to meet their desires....at least until the novelty wears off. I felt the first three acts were absolutely flawless. Act 4 with its black humour was less appealing I thought. The telephone call to his mother was quite unforgettable....."I think I'll go to Heaven because I'm young!"....and spoken with such dead pan sincerity. And the follow-up call to mother was a real gem. Yes...it's the dialogue that fascinates and holds the play together... the casting too is exceptional....and as for the old game of Ludo.... it will be so much more meaningful to me in the future!