Catherine Cotton Happenstance Happenstance is a romance movie. The movie gives many scenarios of people lives who comes from different walks of life. The movie Happenstance is centered on one girl starring Audrey Tautou (Irene) a young girl who seems to be miserable about her life as a young woman. She encounters an old lady on the train who believes in Horoscopes to be true when it comes to fate and read her horoscope and a young gentleman played by actor Faudel as (Younes) who also have the same birthday as Irene wants to hear more about his fate of finding love one day. Eric Savin (Richard) believes if certain incidents happen it is fate. He is struggling making the decision to leave his wife or stay. Eric Feldman (Luc) has no directions about life and looking for an easy answer for life.The main focus to me is on The Destiny Man played by Gilbert Robin who shows up in different angles of the movie to speak destiny about each individual in the movie. The scene when he tells the boy throwing rocks to miss throwing the last rock thru the fence. He shows up periodically in the movie to give it interest and keep you watching to see what is going to happen next. The music in the beginning brought some suspense to the part of the guard and the dog; the music corresponded well with the lighting in the scene and the old vigilant lying on the ground. Overall the movie was alright the music made the movie more come alive. The emotions of the actors/actress did not show any type of happiness about their lives they were very slothful throughout the movie which made it a little boring and plus it was not in English just the subtitles so it made it sort of difficult to view the film and get a sense of feeling from it. The dubbing was horrible could not understand a word without looking at the subtitle in English. I would compare this movie with Old Boy basically the same plot and theme but just in a different country, very close for as the emotions, the dubbing was horrible could not understand although they spoke some English in Old Boy but the movie had a little more action in the story line and both movies although foreign both ended in finding there happy medium in life despite their circumstances.

Urantia My initial expectations of disappointment never fully came to fruition since this movie turned out to be better than some reviews suggested. In fact, my inclination to skip this one after the first few scenes quickly fizzled into an enjoyable excursion of dramatic intrigue. Even though this film delved deeply into how some people place their reliance about their mortal futures in the hands of either some ancient superstition (astrology) or on the outcome of some random occurrence dictated either by the arbitrary whims of chance or by the predetermined will of fate, I tended to focus more upon another theme that to me was just as prevalent and less controversial. What I am referring to here is the philosophical view as to how all of our lives are interconnected in ways we cannot quite fathom and might never fully comprehend...how no person can escape the benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other persons. I will not give any specific examples from the movie since the journey it offers the viewer is one that involves slowly unfolding the connectedness of seemingly unconnected people and events. If I connected the dots about connectedness for you, where would be the fun (for you) in that? So I guess you could say that this movie validated some of my philosophical views: I believe that there is an organic unity in the universes of time and space which seems to underlie the whole fabric of cosmic events, inexplicably manifested ever and anon by what appears to be an amazingly fortuitous co-ordination of apparently unrelated universe happenings. I am also inclined to believe that it is this far-flung and generally unrecognizable control of the co-ordination and interassociation of all phases and forms of universe activity that causes such a variegated and apparently hopelessly confused medley of physical, mental, moral and spiritual phenomena so unerringly to work out to the glory of God and for the good of men and women and angels...but not always for the good of a bug (in this case, one who had a walk-on role but whose agent forgot to include a tiny clause in his contract that specified enabling this creepy-cute character-actor to walk off the set in the same healthy condition he was in when he crawled forth onto it to shoot his final scene...and to make matters worse, no listing in the opening credits, no "IN MEMORY OF" dedication at the end and worst of all, no favorable recognition from the Academy for opting to do all his own stunts).

noralee "Happenstance" is the most New York-feeling Parisian film I've seen since "When the Cat's Away (Chacun cherche son chat). "A film from last year released now to capitalize on the attention Audrey Tatou is getting for "Amelie," its French title is more apt: "Le Battement d'ailes du papillon (The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings)" as in summarizing chaos theory as a controlling element in our lives.Tatou's gamine-ness is less annoying here because she only occasionally flashes that dazzling smile amidst her hapless adventures, and because she's part of a large, multi-ethnic ensemble, so large that it took me a long time to sort out the characters, especially as some of the cute guys and older women looked alike to me, and some of the characters fantasize what they should do such that I wasn't sure if they were doing that or not. But I loved how urban the coincidences were, from immigrants to love nests to crowded subway cars to hanging around cafés.The subtitles quite annoyingly gave both parts of a dialog at once.(originally written 12/8/2001)

jimg-9 How do you spell "sux" in French? How about "snore"? Even "Magnolia" was better than this tripe (another French delicacy, by the way) and it was about 3 hours too long. But that's another topic for another day. PS if you see this just to see "Amelee" (Audrey Tautou) forget it > she's only onscreen for about 1/2 an hour.