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ending ruined it for me (SPOILERS)

posted 10 years ago by haorao
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beautiful acting, backdrop, liked the choice of actors, michael caine is always quite good. story was a little convoluted, predictable lines at times, gimmicky jabs at american culture that even i, as a canadian, took offense too, but minor quibbles that can be overlooked because the overall feel of the movie was much to my liking....very subjective i know, but i think people have described the movie as 'charming' and i think that's the perfect word too

except the last ...i don't know, 20 minutes or so...i don't even know where the climax was exactly. anyway, the whole story arc where pauline starts french kissing with miles....there was too much of a leap in logic as to how they developed this combustible attraction. they had a long conversation, she fell asleep in his hotel room, while matthew was still waiting for her at his country home no less....i felt it was such an egregious turn of events, i was literally calling out "no, no, NOOOOOOO" as pauline and miles kissed. it was gimmicky not because such a thing happening was inconceivable, but because it came out of nowhere. they built up this whole relationship between matthew and pauline, a beautiful, lovely, deeply romantic relationship, and then the pissy, snot-nosed, ingrate of a son absconds with the girl! outrageous. my heart hurt for matthew.

one can say that matthew was so much older than pauline, he should have known that it wouldn't have worked out, but i thought the whole point was that there could be such a love between this old man and this young woman, that their bond could transcend age and they could find common ground.

so disappointed by this. i'm also a little biased against the actor that played miles. i didn't like him at all; i could feel no sympathy for him because, as matthew put it, it did seem like he wasn't cut out for the long haul and all he could do was blame his dad for his failures. sigh.

[–] llll2000 9 years ago

The ending pissed me off to no end. Caine says to his brat son that he would kill him if he hurt Pauline, then he kills himself anyways. I think him and his son getting into a fight and one of them dying in an accident makes more sense for a tragic ending.

[–] Yorick_Brown 9 years ago

Matthew learned that Miles loves Pauline and wouldn't hurt her. The ending is bittersweet but not tragic.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (63001629) 9 years ago

The movie fell off the tracks for me as soon as Miles and Karen showed up and stayed off track all the way to the end. Speaking of Karen, why was she even in the film? Was it to have a big name (Gillian Andersen) on the credits? She was pointless to the plot.

I found this to be interesting--before Miles and Karen showed up every time I saw Matthew I wasn't even thinking that he's Michael Caine. When those two arrived in the plot, every time I saw Matthew I would think he's Michael Caine. That's how much I was taken out of the movie at that point.

If only the movie could've stayed about Matthew and Pauline. One positive -- I thought the sunny scenes of Paris in the fall were spectacular. I just read this was one of the few films of that year to be shot entirely on film. Maybe that's why it just looked so good.

[–] pypsqweek 8 years ago

The ending wasnt surprising though. This movie is not a romance but a story about grief, loss and longing. Matthew is an elderly widow, whose wife of many years and he loved d greatly is gone. So, Matthew feels depressed, lost and alone. Pauline is the same way except she has no family with memories of a loving father whom she loved greatly too. Both Pauline and Matthew remind each other of a lost loved one whom they deeply love and miss. At times they may confuse things until reality hits. That more so for Matthew than Pauline because he misses his wife and love . Really if you watch the movie and try to see the perspective of Matthew, Pauline and Miles, you get your answers except Karen. To me, Karen just mirrors the adult kid whi flies in when theres a crisis and fly off when theres nit. They are too preoccupied with their own life or what they consider a crisis.