SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

ciaopeche The film's honesty can at times be hilarious, sensual, and painful. As you watch the lively young couple from act 1 morph into something unrecognizable, you can't help but feel despair. Only once the couple has reached rock-bottom can they begin to re-emerge, learning how to become themselves again. As Nico attempts to become the breadwinner, he slowly becomes cold and callous, unsympathetic to Barb and nothing like his former self. Barb becomes isolated, barely talking to her friends and even Nico, making Lea her life. Louise Bourgoin does a wonderful job of expressing the anguish her character feels, through blank stares and tears. I love the way this film explores postpartum depression in a real way, and how as the characters gradually have their love drained out of them, so does the color and light of the film, leaving only a blue-gray tone. Only when Barb begins to heal with the help of her mother, and Nico's gradual understanding of Barb's pain as he attempts to fulfill Barb's former role does warmth enter the screen again, signaling a new beginning for both her and Nico. A simple story in the sense it is a common occurrence in life, but extremely well executed.

Anton L This is one the best movies I've seen since a long time! The synopsis says it, this is the essential stuff happening to everybody in daily life but no great philosopher or whoever seems to be able to understand. This film somehow comforted me and triggered me to deal with the last ten years of my life in quite an amazing manner. In modern society the event of birth is so overwhelming in so many positive and negative ways that small isolated families are severely shaken up by it. Post natal depressions should not be rare and affect both members of the couple. Even though the movie is not always that easy to look at, the images, colors, music and humoristic moments, it is all just perfect. I do not see any reason not to give this one a huge ten. Thanks!

nikolova-assya I guess today the questions about when and how to have kids and especially how to stay in a couple afterwards are becoming more and more difficult to answer. Actually in every movie I see on the topic, they try to persuade me that the only way to do it right is your way, but this usually doesn't'go without about a bit of socio-cultural propaganda about mothers, father and families. And this is the what I like about this movie - it doesn't lead you to preset conclusions, in fact it dos quite the opposite. Every time during the movie, when I thought I knew where this was going, it actually turned the other way around. But never the less when you look to the whole string of events, everything fits, everything is believable and actually can picture yourself or someone you know closely in such a situation. I actually quite remembered saying and thinking the same things as Barbara though the kid-having moment hasn't come to me yet. But apart being so honest and sincerely questioning our stands on the points of having kids, this movie has other great quality and this is the chemistry between the Bab and Nico. It's just that you feel their connection, you feel what is like to "love someone so much that the bet thing to do out of this love is to have a child". And this is great, because this is the answer of all the questions - love and slefgiving. You loose your way when you forget that. So in conclusion - you want to see this movie because it is gentle, it is sincere and will put you in the mood for love.

bdugan-380-186048 Why has this movie not been made already? Its such a believable, everyday story, and it shows the way life really is. Two people meet, they have a sweet courting period, they're perfect together, they have a baby. And then its like two new people that have to start over with a new set of tough constraints & pressures. But they muddle along and work together, on the baby and on their own lives at the same time.I thought this was an extremely well conveyed telling of a story that we all know, but that can't be told too often. Every instance of it is unique, but with universal themes.I enjoyed the drama-less drama of this movie: life itself in its mundane details is so dramatic!