such a wonderful love theme, such beautiful storyteling... Its like a fine piece of poetry...

"For a while, Tykwer gets by on the loveliness of his compositions and his talent for conjuring up unique settings and interesting exchanges." - Andrew Schenker

The ever-gimmicky Tom Tykwer misses his mark with this incredibly long and pretentious film about a bunch of incredibly unsympathetic and pretentious Berlin art-douchebags. Tykwer's little tricks that works wonders in his early films seems completely out of place in this boring story that involves no characters you'd want to invest anything in. They could have all died of cancer and car accidents after 20 minutes and the film would've been all the better for it. Anywho: Rewatched Epilog. Great.

It's never really dull. In fact, there are moments of visual wit and playful inventiveness. But the intellectual points raised in this sensuous drama are not exactly reflected in the underdeveloped characters.

Tykwer's romantic threesome is mostly about a couple that is living by the rules and gets involved with a post-modern loner. But the director, while still in shape with his cinematic poetry of multiple eyes and kinetic editing, develops this premise with an artsy, pretentious and too stuffed philosophical look, filled with boring scientific visual/verbal speeches. Daring and disappointing.