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My god...I couldn't even finish this film


I was really looking forward to seeing this film, esp. after all the awards Christopher Plummer has been receiving. So I popped it in my DVD player the night after the Golden Globes....and popped it out after about 40 mins and back into the Netflix envelope.

What was this movie supposed to be? Rom-com? Coming out story? Fantasy? The "meet cute" with the French actress was too contrived, the constant shifting from present to distant past to recent past was jarring and did not advance the story. But when we get subtitles of what the dog was thinking? I was done with it.

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I was close to giving up too, but made it to the end since I don't like to bail on movies.

I thought this was a pointless movie, I didn't get what the director wanted to tell us. The script is boring and really lacks depth, and the editing is awful, especially the flashbacks that don't fit with the narration and those horrible slideshow parts. And what was the drawing scenes all about ?!

As for the actors, their performances were bland, and the characters lacked depth, I didn't feel any sympathy/empathy/antipathy towards them.

I gave this movie a 2/10.

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I totally agree. I watched it today and stopped it around 50 minutes. It was funny because my mom got a phone call and lost 30 minutes from the movie and when she came back she asked what she had missing and i said nothing, literally. Nothing important or interesting happened.

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I concur. Pointless, boring, presumptuous film.

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I have to kind of agree. The film was too fragmented - and the sections were not tied together well enough. The individual parts were all intriguing. The father coming out, the childhood with his troubled mother, the new relationship with the actress, him dealing with his fathers death, etc. But the film was constantly pulling you away from one issue to the next, so you would never really start caring about any of them. And far to much emphasis was put on the young woman, when she was clearly the weakest part of the film.

Weirdly I literally only watched this yesterday and don't remember the 'dog subtitles' AT ALL. The version I watched already had subtitles for the rest of the dialogue, so I must have just completely ignored them somehow.

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