Grimy and irrelevant - but love shines thru

Impressive combination of a visceral style with an almost surreal quality and a grimy bleak tone that takes those contrasting elements, reflects them on the characters and comes out as more than the sum of its parts. It shows the pleasure trying to hide the pain and does it in a way that neither exaggerates nor trivializes the characters and their feelings, and is a stronger film for this emotional, if not factual, sincerity.

No. Absolutely not. There is a scene like 15 minutes in where Alex runs really fast away despite having a broken leg. Why? Why do you gotta run like that it is so repulsive and disgusting. Just walk man. Calm down.

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Crazy. Crazy in love. A rave of color. Fascinating.

The fireworks canal surfing scene was really quite a spectacle and very inspired. But I struggle to find other very positive things to say about this movie. It's the kind of love story that you often find in French cinema: it has this very labored, rigid romanticism, it's never heartfelt despite, or partly because of, how everything is very contrived to be symbolic or meaningful. But it's also because the characters just don't really work at all.

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Beautiful girl lives under the bridge.

There are some great images, but I wasn't able to get into this as much as I would have liked. Juliette Binoche is dependably amazing.

01 Temmuz 09 & benim anladigim kadinin ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda sevdigidir. kadin aldatilir, ask acisi ceker ve sokaklara gidip onu aldatamayacak bir adam bulur: Alex. Kadin, korlesir, tedavi olmak icin Alex'i terkeder ve doktoruyla bir iliskiye baslar.Alex'te bu sirada bu kadin icin metroyu & adamlari yakmis,bu yuzden hapistedir.Bir sure sonra kadinin icinde bir bosluk olusur ve bnu doldurmak adina hapistn cikmasina aylar kalan Alex'e geri doner. Gercek ask Alex'in yasadigidir, tek kisiliktir.

This movie has some brilliant moments. The film shows love between homeless people without pulling punches. Carax makes Alex especially tough to root for, and ultimately this is the Achilles heel of the movie. I really would like to give this a higher score, because there are so many fantastic scenes, exhilirating moments and bold choices. But I'm not too comfortable accepting the Alex character on the level that I think Carax is asking me to.

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