Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

tonyking-2 One of the greatest classic films; saw it several times in the eighties on VHS video with an English soundtrack. It appears there is no DVD version available with an English soundtrack which seems strange and annoying as I would like to have a copy to keep. Along with Gone With The Wind and Dr Zhivago it is one of the best of its type. A complicated entwined WWII story or stories of various people brought together for a single purpose, a Unicef concert in Paris that may take a couple of viewings to piece it together but well worth it. The ballet performance to Bolero at the end is spine tingling,and from someone who does not really like ballet.....

jrippey Just viewed this movie on a DVD from Netflix. This movie is what a motion picture can be in the hands of an intelligent and talented director.The photography was wonderful, the use of color was spectacular, the sound was excellent, and the music and performances were top notch. I especially liked the full symphony orchestra segments and the American big band segments. The Folies-type musical numbers were also done with flair, and Geraldine Chaplin proved herself to be a classy cabaret singer (assuming her voice wasn't dubbed). Michel Legrand I believe was responsible for the music, which was first rate throughout.All production values were of the highest order.The final dance sequence, which lasted far longer than anything Hollywood would permit, was phenomenal; the late Jorge Donn was not Nureyev, but spectacular all the same. The robustness and uncompromisingly balletic style of the finale put the ballet sequences in a couple of American movies--American In Paris and Carousel-- in the shade. Released in the U.S. as Bolero, apparently. Without car chases, explosions, etc., I doubt if it did very well at the box office over here.

P.S. Paaskynen I share with the other commentators the love of this amazing film, which has been on my 10-best-ever list since I first saw it. The director has done a wonderful job of keeping together the various story lines, that cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes.The main story in the film is of course the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates.Many characters in the film are loosely based on musical icons (Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glen Miller, Edith Piaf, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) and the many sub plots, such as in the band of friends returning from the Algerian war, make the film into a rich experience of lives and fates that may confuse some at first sight, but that makes the film interesting and involving even after repeated viewing. The Bolero dance sequence at the end, in which all threads come together, never ceases to blow me away.

michelerealini This is probably the most famous Claude Lelouch's film - second only to "A man and a woman" (1966). While the latter has a very simple (and fascinating) structure, "Les uns et les autres" (also known as "Bolero") has a more complex and more ambitious layout.The film is a saga, it tells the story about four artist families from the Second World War to the Sixties. Lelouch works with some of the best French movie actors (Hossein, Garcia, Brialy, Villeret, Bohringer) and two stars like James Caan and Geraldine Chaplin. Music (excellent) is composed by Francis Lai and Michel Legrand, choreography is conceived by Maurice Béjart.The film is very long and slow, sometimes Lelouch is self-indulgent (some situations are set in a very maniacal way, we feel much perfectionism). But it is another captivating movie of this French director, who likes long shots and also lets many many images speak for themselves. I would say the film is a cinematic poem, full of lyricism. A love dedication to life and art.