FancyFranziFfm This is the most adorable love story I've ever have seen. It is so full with true love and heartache, it melts my heart every time I see it.I adore Stana Katic in this movie. It's the first one she has a brilliant role in. All other movies didn't give her a chance...It's played with so much nature in the characters, it is simply beautiful to watch and listen. I never ever get enough of this movie, have Tod watch it again and again. So please be Warner, you may be addicted after watching. But not just to the movie also to Stana Katic.Filming it black&white is perfectly chosen.Sorry for my bad English it's not my native language.

Richard Abeysinghe It's one the most hauntingly beautiful movies I've seen in a long time. Just fell in love with it during the first scene itself. True many say that there is nothing much to the story, but I loved how it ended: open for interpretation. The other fact that made it such a wonderful experience was how realistic it all felt. It could have happened to any one of us. Plus haven't most of us had that love who somehow got away, despite the many opportunities? Having followed Stana Katic's career ever since she starred on 'Castle', I feel so grateful that she took time off of her summer holidays to shoot a movie that started off as just a travel & shoot movie but ended up touching a lot of our hearts!

hkauteur Have you ever strolled with your girlfriend down the street in the perfect mutual moment and wished somebody photographed the both of you at the right angle and turned it into a postcard? That's what this film feels like from beginning to end.For Lovers Only is a completely intoxicating assault on the senses. They completely capture the intimacy of human touch; someone stroking your hair, nibbling your ear, the saliva strings between kisses, stroking their fingers across your back while clamping their legs around you in a deep embrace. It's every picture-perfect chocolaty moment that any hopeless romantic would love to experience.Stana Katic looks divine; her beauty makes me want to cry. Suffice to say, she gives a good performance. Mark Polish is fine but his performance is hidden beneath his sunglasses. Together they both make a believable couple and most importantly create the mutual overwhelming rush of passion. Also noteworthy is the film's sensuous soundtrack, of which I listened through the film's closing credits.Romantic as it is, the Polish brothers also present an insightful examination of love. Relationships are spatial and temporal, and we are confined by how close we are and how much time we have. It's always in moments of ecstasy where time zips by, you begin counting the seconds before the moment is gone. For Lovers Only incorporates this into its film language, most notably in its montage sequences.Here we see how love amplifies everything up to eleven, how everything becomes life and death (which justifies the dreamy black and white cinematography). And how there is only one person for you in the entire world, right before you wake up and snap out of it. Through the sweet and the sour, we realize Sofia and Yves are intertwined in this moment of passion because of their past relationship and by the romantic excitement of their chance encounter. It's suddenly romantic when they're reminded how they are so used to each other. But does familiarity make a lasting relationship? That becomes the film's central question, but they leave it up for the audience to answer themselves.In the end, unlike the typical Hollywood romance, this film chooses the emotional journey of love over the final result of whether love is obtained. For Lovers Only is a bittersweet dark chocolate of a film and I recommend every romantic couple have a 89-minute affair with it.For more reviews, please visit my film blog at http://hkauteur.wordpress.com/

lanciacoriandoli The movie is aesthetically beautiful... maybe too much. Each shot is designed to perfection. Nothing is left to chance and you will notice it sometimes... you will notice the presence of the director too. Beautiful the chosen black and white that reminds some of those Robert Doisneau's photos. All those things are intentional... As a matter of facts the movie is about photography, framing, it is about time stopping to build the perfect shot... doing this both in a picture and in life. Stopping the time in that unique instant, which is the art, which is sex, which is every moment in which we realize that we are living, but at that same time that particular moment soon gets us into sadness. Some scenes are really really beautiful... but there are too much of them that you could not digest it all! It's all so full, each frame is fragmented into a lot of other frames, faces the double mirrors, the transparency of glass and windows. In fact I struggle quoting one in particular... there are so many beautiful scenes and beautiful shots, all so dense but that density risks to remain diluted by and into the "too much". Beautiful close-ups of both the leading actors... breathtaking Stana Katic's ones that appears beautiful and is able to give her character a past and a future, with her expressions only. Very successful is the close attention for eyes, hands, mouths and tongues details... sometimes it my be a little intrusive. After 25 minutes the movie has a very interesting change in acceleration. The cutting becomes fast, the light high, and the music bursts. The shots change too, opening to shoot the two protagonists and not just parts/details of them. From this moment on it is a continuous succession of overlapping, wide shots and extreme close-ups, fast and slow cutting, sudden cuts and on-off alterning voices. At the beginning of the movie the protagonist tells his love to her: I do not photograph people anymore, but inanimate objects only, just because I do not see what I would like to see. In people I find only parts of you: your nose, your eyes, your hands ... but I can never see the whole of you, I can't find yourself. Beautiful is the motorcycle scene... I had already found it good watching the trailer, because of the metaphor between bike and sex. Feeling the bike's engine between the legs, his power under you. Feel when the gear engages and the bike spurts out under your body. To control that power, that emotion (similar to sex) something that explodes when you try to control it up to the end, but you know you cannot control it completely and totally. Nice the final scene, the only on color, shoot in a field of yellow flowers... looks like the scene from an old silent movie. In my opinion it's a very nice movie... maybe too much thought and reasoned... and I realize that in this nowadays reality, in which everything is done pulling it away, my opinion could appear as one of someone who is never satisfied, but that's it! The movie, I think is nice but lacks a bit in spontaneity... paradox, he lacks a bit of heart. But I do not want to be misunderstood: the movie is really very nice.