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NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

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.

dmmism This movie is unbelievably corny, and it's pretty disappointing at the end. I didn't mind it for most of the movie, but I was sort of appalled come the end--or, rather, a few minutes before the end, when the whole thing comes to wrap (or, in my opinion, completely unravel).In fact, this movie is what inspired me to finally register at IMDb to write a review.Julie Gayet earns the first three stars. The fourth goes to the rest of the cast and a fifth to the overall production being decent.But yeah, this script seemed to be written by a high school junior who just got dumped and was trying to woo back his love...or otherwise attempting--and failing fantastically--to be profound.

sborj My comment is very biased. I am from Baie-Comeau, but I left the town 10 years ago. Watching the movie on TV was just an excuse to have a glimpse of the nice Côte-Nord scenery. To me, it was like a game...trying to find where each scene was shot. The very short cemetery scene was filmed in my home village! (Pointe-aux-Outardes) To me, it was a good opportunity to see some familiar landscapes.I liked the movie very much. As usual, Pascale Bussières does an incredible job. However, like a few other viewers, I was left with the feeling that a lot of my questions remained unanswered at the end of the movie. I would have liked to get clear answers to all the "unusual" phenomena that occur in the movie. Finally, it was nice to see Geneviève Bujold back on the screen! I always wondered what had happened to her since I saw "Anne of the Thousand Days" as a teenager. Bravo Manon Briand! Continue ton beau travail!

Lex-13 This film has a lot of good things going for it. The cinematography is awesome if too artificial at times. Some of the takes are too clearly references to classic images but still make for a nice overall look. The acting is generally convincing and precise although a few lines drops the ambiance too abruptly.The plot itself is interesting if taken as an artistic process. Suspension of disbelief helps greatly as it's best to immerse oneself in the overall experience rather than nitpick on details. Quite a few counterfactual errors are to be expected in such situations. In a way, this could have been a great film if some things had been taken out. At times, the viewer is spoon-fed an interpretation of the "poetry" of the film. Letting the art speak for itself would have helped greatly.For some reason, the same is true of the previews. Simply put, they seem to say too much although it's hard to tell what effect they would have on someone who knows nothing of the movie.Let's hope that, next time, Manon Briand will let her artistic sense free and not impose it on the viewer.

Howard Schumann In the warm and humorous Quebecois film, Chaos and Desire, shown at last year's Vancouver Film Festival, Alice Bradley, played by the lovely Pascale Bussieres, is a seismologist working in Japan studying the factors that can predict earthquakes. When the tides mysteriously stop flowing on the St. Lawrence River in her hometown of Baie Comeau, she returns to investigate and comes up against the bizarre behavior of local residents. In one instance, a little Chinese girl (Ji-Yan Séguin) sleepwalks every night at the exact same time. In others, a woman chops down every tree in her front yard, and the phone number of a fire-fighting pilot named Marc Vandal (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) has been ripped out of every phone book in town. Running from a troubled past and consumed by loneliness, Alice must now deal not only with the problem of the tides but with a growing involvement with Vandal and the not so subtle advances of her journalist friend Catherine (Julie Gayet). When Alice uncovers the film's central mystery, the presumed drowning of Vandal's wife, the investigation turns away from science to the world of spirit and achieves a resolution of surprising power.