Nonureva Really Surprised!

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

selffamily I really liked this film - I found it laugh-out-loud funny in parts, as it has a very quick wit to it. The casting cannot be faulted, the sets are perfect and of course the storyline is an elegant piece of entertaining fluff. I don't want to go into immense detail about the plot, as others have done (that's the ten line minimum rule I suspect)but there were some surprises. I didn't recall that the couple had been married as suggested in previous reviews, I had thought that they were lovers, but obviously I could be wrong. It was a rented DVD and absolutely worth it. If I get the chance, I might add it to my collection.

jotix100 Some pictures probably 'read' better than when they are translated to the cinema. Such seems to be the case with "Twice Upon a Time", conceived and directed by Antoine de Caunes. It is a "franglish" production that maybe with a different tone it might have played differently.Alice and Louis, two former lovers, star actors in the French cinema, had separated thirty years before and now they surface again as Louis is going to receive a 'lifetime award' by the English motion picture industry. Alice seemed to be the natural presenter of the trophy, but alas, once they meet, their old animosity comes back in full swing. Alice is now married, alas in name only, to a wealthy man, Lord Gaylord, who one figures immediately, does a great service to his surname. There is a son too, Paul, who is a successful businessman, but who would trade everything in order to become a painter. Will Alice and Louis pick up where they left off? Hmm, stay tuned...It is a shame to have the amazing Charlotte Rampling in a role that will not add anything to her career. Ditto for Jean Rochefort, although he is not as effective as Ms. Rampling. Ian Richardson shows up as a gay husband and Charles Dance portrays the emcee of the award show. One wonders what they were doing in a bad movie. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes.This is a movie to be seen at the viewer's own risk.

gretacvega I really want to see this film because of Jean Rochefort, I think he's a fantastic actor, and in this play he can play as a very angry man or as a man really in love. Charlotte Rampling plays in the same way from very angry and violent to very passionate. I think that the fact that the film shows the two faces of the characters makes it very interesting and amusing.The gags in the film come from the British and the french humor, actually I love both, so a film which has them, couldn't be boring. The rest of the cast is fine, with a lovely English accent, and from the french part: Isabelle Nanty, who is well-known in France, she usually plays in comedies but characters who have different qualities.sorry for my English, but I really recommend the film to people who like British and french gags.

mmunier I did enjoy the first comment which is much more generous than mine! I was rather disappointed having raised my expectation knowing J Rochefort was in it. I did find it slow and inappropriately exuberant at first. Then it did warm up a little and came up with some good gags. I can't remember it the dog did it for me or not! Actually it did but a little predictable (now i've got to tick the spoiler box!). Altogether for me it was more ridiculous than sublime. I have the feeling it would have been a far more successful stage play. I'm glad I did not check it here because the only two comments seem rather extreme, now with mine as a kind of extremity too since I'd rather not rate something below 5. Still, if there is nothing else or you want to see your favourite actors tackling different works, by no mean give it a go. 1/5/2012 Ha ha ha again! Guess what's on my TV tonight? ...Yes and I forgot I'd seen it but found my two cents about it here! I guess I won't bother about it, again so it'll be just "Once only upon the time" because it's enough for me