Ozon doesn't seem to have a very high opinion of heterosexual men, does he?

If I remember correctly this was painfully dull.

Fleeting moments where it feels uniquely pure. Ozon appears to be getting better at this.

I glimpse a sober director with a wish to convey something, but the film is harmed by clichès (narrative-wise) and comformity (cinematographically-wise)... Ozon study his character with an ok concern, but it's ultimately a forceless film.

Relationchips are hard work from the beginning to the end ( in case of 5 x 2 from the end till the beginning ) Ozon catches the mood of his two main characters perfectly and created a Drama that´s worth to see.

"Oh, François, you big tease!" - Eric Henderson

Siiiiiiigh. I don't like Francois Ozon. I actually thought I might like this one, but no it more or less feels like a soap opera if written by a fashion magazine and sprinkled with unconvincing attempts at artfulness. The music choices are lame, the only vaguely interesting shots are heaped in cliche (that ending shot, argh!), the film seems largely uninsightful (go watch the massively superior Scenes from a Marriage instead) and I don't see why this couple ever got together in the first place.

As we travel back through the key moments in a failed relationship, we see the seeds of the break-up. While this is a great idea, it failed for me at some level because I could see why they broke up, but not why they were together in the first place.

I can't understand why this is called a realistic movie about the end of love. What's real here? There couldn't be more extreme acts to make their "love" break (there was any love between them at some point anyway?). If a relationship begins with shit, it keeps being shit and ends with a big shit. Most of the times relationships doesn't end because the extreme points in this movie, because love is more fragile than that, relationships doesn't need nuclear weapons to end.

Interesting because we are curious to know how the relationship has begun instead of how it has finished because we already know.

Definitely underrated...

Liked the time-in-reverse notion, but the film seemed a bit sketchy. Has good moments, but the overall feel of the thing is akin to a cheap shot--underscored by the heavy-handed sunset symbolism at the end. So the seed of first love becomes eventually (and inevitably) the blossom of divorce? That's rather ignoring all the stuff in between, isn't it? Think it would've been far more effective if the ending had been a joyous awakening; that would only have increased the poignancy of the rest of it.