Reviews

This movie is just ridiculous. We can know what the end will be 20min after the movie started, and we can even know what brought this movie to the end after half an hour. The movie will not come to an end because time is not up and the unrecognizing affairs are sure to happen over and over because the time is not up. When the time is up, I mean the time that a movie usually takes(for 2 hours APPROX.), she will succeed to recognize him. Isn't it ridiculous? A movie with a childish plot just wasting our time in waiting its end!!!Those so-called touched moments are just like a funny chess play. We know who the winner is so what's the point? Every step seems so redundant!

It is a French tragicomedy, trying to present philosophy with humor, affording much food for thought. Serge is quite misanthropic but much complicated for lacking of sincerity, and Valence is just the opposite. Both of the actors have deficiency comparing to Alceste, and both are conceited. And this is one comic reason leading to tragedy.

Another comic reason is kind of paradox. The perfect Alecste will never show himself on the stage because of his nature, who will instead sit along the river alone and enjoy the pure happiness far away from the city, just as the time of their rehearsal we remember, those pure moments when they forgot the stage.

By the way, I like Lambert Wilson.