Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

madcardinal Very French! This film embraces the physical reality of living just as conspicuously as American films avoid it. The film centers on five young adults: Lucie, her bisexual brother Pierre, and their friends Nicolas, Sebastien and Baptiste. The young men play together in a band and enjoy rocking local audiences. The viewer has to pay attention - the film is part murder mystery and follows Lucie's thoughts in the form of flashbacks. I'd recommend watching it twice: first for immersion and second for appreciation and understanding.In terms of cinematography, this movie is beautiful - featuring sumptuous, rich color. The beautiful actors add to the appeal, but other reviewers have made slightly too much of their attractiveness. I could go to my local shopping mall on a busy night and find five young adults as physically fit and attractive as the main actors in "Chacun sa nuit." The difference is in the U.S. - with its current of quirky religious extremism, its tendency towards irrational hysteria, and its servile pandering to pressure groups - it would be extremely difficult to craft a movie as honest and authentic as "Chacun sa nuit." (It is worth noting that this film is based on real events.) Let's just say the French are often very forthright in depicting the physical beauty that is the special province of young adulthood, and they reveal it without censorship or hand-wringing. All the nudity is positive in tone.Because of our strong vein of Puritanical dualism, Americans often make films that pit the soul and body (or two characters representing soul and body) in a battle against each other. Have you ever noticed how many U.S. films feature a pitched showdown between an impossibly good character and an impossibly bad character? French films, on the other hand, often feature the soul and body complementing and informing each other - in effect going off to explore together. This often makes it easier for French film-makers to celebrate and savor life in their movies - including accepting the sexual aspects of living. Also, there is no aversion to sorrow.The relationships here are not Disney-fied, rather they are intense and intimate. Pierre and Lucie as brother and sister are devoted to each other; they stop a millimeter short of full-blown incest. Some of the dialog between the two comes perilously close to being pretentious. But everything is incredibly poignant to the point where you almost feel you could reach out to the screen and touch them.But all is not rainbows, poetry and love-making in provincial France. Someone hustles for money on the side and there is a murder - seediness and iniquity thereby enter in. The solution to the murder implies what may be an unanswerable series of questions: 1) Does untrammeled freedom lead to the total evaporation of morals? 2) Is there an extreme Puritan inside all of us demanding that we "punish" ourselves and others for celebrating freedom, welcoming sexual joy, and savoring life? 3) Could an overzealous desire for freedom and an internalized pious tyrant be toxic co-conspirators paving the way to ruin? "Chacun sa nuit" is a film to indulge in - like a bottle of Bordeaux with a sirloin roast.

Lechuguilla Visually, it's a fine movie. It looks great, with an attractive cast, excellent color cinematography, especially the lighting, and well-composed frames.And the story is based on true events, provocative, at that. Four young guys, and one young woman named Lucie, explore life and love, perform in a band, and generally hang out together in modern day France. One of the guys (Pierre) is Lucie's brother. When Pierre goes missing and is presumed dead, Lucie sets about to find out what happened to him.Except for the musical performances, "Chacun sa nuit" is generally a slow, quiet film, with very long camera "takes". Characters spend a lot of time lounging around in the nude, sulking, dawdling, brooding, lost in thought. The script is not overly talky, thankfully. Indeed, the dialogue is measured, deliberate, contemplative.But, the film's structure is difficult, for several reasons. First, the script's inciting incident happens off-screen, which renders some confusion as to what is going on, in the first half. Second, events do not occur chronologically. Instead, flashbacks to the time when Pierre was alive alternate with events after his death. And that compounds the confusion, especially the first time I watched the film. The second viewing did help to clarify the plot.In addition, given that the other three guys (Nicolas, Sebastien, and Baptiste) are all about the same age, the same height, and have similar appearances, I found it hard to keep them straight ... so to speak.I wish the film's script had gone through another rewrite or two. A few changes here and there could have clarified who was who and what was happening. But despite a less than perfect script, "Chacun sa nuit" is a film worth watching, for the beautiful cinematography; for the provocative, underlying concept; and for a story that is based on real-life events.

stodruza I shuffled into this film in a sur-le-vif kind of way, on a whim, while running about town. I was twenty minutes late. The young naked bodies thrown everywhere made a good impression. The protagonist girl, with her swarthy yet subtle, austere, French, and you can guess, sexual contradictory nature, energized me to some degree. The voice over, her running around with invective in her blood, trying to find out the murderer, energized me sexually even further, with just a tinge greater intensity than I would have been sensually energized if she had not been running around with such an imperative. The film has a calm energy which is interesting, viewed in this way. The sexuality does not have an energized imperative, as it does, perennially and ubiquitously, in all forms here in the United states.Which is nice. The orgy in which everyone participates is calm, so European, sex as it is perhaps among many sea turtles doing it, simultaneously. The murderers are found, the film finally ends in a French nihilistic sort of way. This is the way to enjoy this film, which is to say it is better to watch it for mood instead of story.

incitatus-org Pierre and Lucie, brother and sister, are in a full sexual development swing with their friends, until one day, Pierre does not come home. The question of the movie is what happened to him. The curiosity of the movie, is how Lucie goes about finding out. We follow her as she uses the only power she has discovered, her body, to try to obtain answers in a micro- cosmos of perversity and sexual adolescent indulgence. It is unfortunate that the movie suffers from a confusion from start to finish, due partly to the resemblance of the characters, partly to the bizarre nature of the script and partly to the (time-frame) editing. Consequently, the audience loses interest in what could have been an original youthful tale. Lucie's manipulation of others through their desire for her body is taken as her strength, which, even if taken as unfortunate, does not evolve into a more mature version. Character development is perhaps a lot asked for a group of youngsters, but a little more character would have helped. If you venture into the dark hall for this one, make sure its late and you are tired. You will leave with the inspirational originality of the sexual/ amorous melange without being too affected by the overall work. But beware of just being lulled into the realms of your own faraway dreamworld.