pavel_zaprianov Jacques Rivette. Once again showing us summertime Paris and looking for adventures in it. And once again he succeeds in that. It's like the whole movie is in slow motion and I guess it does not surprise anyone familiar with the work of this great director, but this does not make the movie boring, but rather magical, during the movie we slowly move into a world, where nothing happens as it would happen in real life (a girl collects all her stuff in shoe-boxes, another cures herself from vertigo with a shock therapy by a card game), but everything seems realistic. This is a trick that Rivette is very good at. In fact this is his form of surrealism that he started to develop at the seventies with "Out 1" and "Celine And Julie Go Boating". Achieving this thing by telling about mysteries and shooting his movies with the documentary style pioneered by the Nouvelle Vague and by the director his self he combines the best of Bunuel and Rohmer. Rivette has a fascination with several things: Paris, theater, conspiracies and young women. In this work he tells us a story about three young women in Paris, each of whom looking for herself. Two of these women solve a big mystery at by trying to put their lives in order, while the third one is the typical for Rivette's movies female outsider. Rivette chooses summer to show us Paris with it's wonderful locations and so parks, cafés and small quiet streets are the tool for him to give to the movie an atmosphere of the film, which is colorful and joyful. This atmosphere is achieved also by the fact that almost all of the characters are young and by the several love stories that are told among everything else. One of the most beautiful movies ever.

heartonastring7 Bad, Bad, Awful........It was the worst film I have ever seen. It was dragged on for about three hours and in the end you were given a question mark. Bad acting, awful music and dancing, and the story line was boring. I don't know why so many people gave it such a good rating, it baffles me. Other people's comments lead me to watch this awful movie. There are so many other good French movies, why waste your time with this one? Where to begin with the horror, the acting. The main character Louise looks like a bad Audrey Hepburn. In the beginning of the movie she has just come out of a coma and is said to be weak. Though that didn't stop her from fighting a guy who was attacking her bodyguard. Much of the story line seemed extremely fictional and confusing. One Instance of this is when her bodyguard somehow turns into her lover over night. Then there is Ida, a girl who was adopted as a child and is now longing to know where she comes from. Ida's story is the most confusing, because you're left wondering why the script writers put it in the movie. It is the shortest and has no significance in the movie. The last girl in the movie is Ninon, a trouble maker who finally tries to do right with Louise. Let's just say I didn't like the way she broke out in abstract dance where ever she went. It was bad from the beginning till the end, and from the script to the music.

Andrew Humphrey I didn't like it at all, it seemed pointless and silly to me. Just having those two random musical numbers seemed daft rather than stylish. That "Cole Porter" song was horrible.The subplot about the strange murder game just petered out, it didn't make any sense to me at all. There was also an strange moment when Nino and Louise suddenly were great pals, walking down the street arm in arm, having only met vaguely before that.It could have been intriguing and fun, but I thought it was fake whimsical and boring.It was the only thing with English subtitles here in Vientiane, but I wish I hadn't bothered.

label The dance scenes were too long, the chansons didn't really match with the plot. The only cool scene was the deadly game with the mysterious club owner. Without the singing and dancing stuff it could be a wonderful movie about the story of the three women which are linked together in a special way.After half of the time I was the only one left in the cinema watching the boring movie. Even my french flatmate didn't like the movie. If you like to see a better (and typical) french movie then choose "La vie est une chanson".