This film was recommended to me by my classmate which made me very eager to watch. Firstly I need to stay how big fan I'm of Canadian cinema, especially of the mastercraft work that creates Denis Villeneuve and Xavier Dolan. These two personalities are my greatest idols. "Café de Flore" is truly a story about the power of love. There are two kinds of love in this movie: love between a man and a woman and love of a mother to her son. I particularly liked the storyline about the mother and her son. She had to raise her son on her own because of his Down's syndrome. She encourages her son to learn everything despite the fact that kids with a Down's syndrome were discriminated in that era and often sent to Institutions (their story takes place in 1967). There was this particular line of a man saying "Do you believe in soul mate? That there's somebody made for you. If it's a soul mate, it's not supposed to end, that it's not supposed to happen twice" even though he leaves his wife for another woman. I liked this scene because I figured with this line director wanted to address the audience. The flashbacks in the film may confuse you, therefore you have to follow closely and pay attention to every detail. That's why I think this movie is not for everyone. Music plays an integral part in this movie as it describes the depth of the scenes. Music is used beautifully as the characters are being progressed. But I have to disagree with what the lead character had to say – that a man understands music more than a woman does. Women are great at contemplating modern music and even more know great deal about it. This film carries a strong message: that all that happens has a reason, that leap of faith can take you anywhere. In one word: this film is beautiful, haunting and very intense! This is one of those movies that will stay with you long after you watched it. You will feel the tension coming out of it while watching binding emotional themes and how two stories develop with help of the background themes. All in all it was a unique rewarding film experience for me. The ending said it all!

From its polished soundtrack to its paranormal twists, this brilliant movie directed by C.R.A.Z.Y.'s Jean-Marc Vallée is worth watching. You're alternately taken to 1969 Paris and 2011 Montréal respectively following a single mother raising her son with Down syndrome and a family coping with parental separation and the father's new soulmate situation. As the plot slowly - Quebec filmmakers take their time - developed on a cloud of Sigur Ros songs, everything I had not expected from this movie happened. The seemingly two unrelated stories only linked by matching tunes turned out to be much more. I thought this would be a heartbreaking drama drowned in 8th grader romance and miserable fatality. It is more of a Vanilla Sky-type intrigue and quite the mindfuck. The cast is absolutely flawless from Vanessa Paradis' portrayal of a mother struggling with societal prejudice to Evelyne Brochu's character of the obviously hated stepmother and stunning new soulmate or even Marin Gerrier who plays Paradis' son. Café de Flore is everything you wanted and more.1 reason to watch it: this is art.

Cafe de Flore or a coffee on every rebirth. Whether behind our actions stand reasons set out in the untouchable past or we should not deepen so much? At least one thing is certain - the actions we do draw our future destinies, and our relationships with others are the most important.About what we should not be, about - to trust more on our intuition and most importantly, to seek peace and love. You know the saying - if you love something, let it go and if it comes back to you, no one wants it. About breaking with childhood and building a complete figures based on clearly conscious desires and ideas.I give this high rate, because I liked also the boldness of the film. Because its quality did not suffer from the "vulgar" storyline, because it showed that electronic music has messages as worldviews. Because it showed that money does not make happiness - happiness does not depend on them, but the opposite. it needs a balance. And because through the mouth of the medium it connected the world of faith and reason.http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/

The first story is set in present-day Montreal and centers on a recently divorced father of two girls, Antoine Godin (Kevin Parent), who leads a successful life as a professional DJ. Despite having found true happiness in his relationship with his girlfriend Rose (Evelyne Brochu), he feels a little remorseful for having left his ex-wife Carole (Hélène Florent), for whom he still cares deeply. Antoine understands that she continues struggling to move on with her life, heartbroken. And to make the situation in which they find themselves even more difficult, their eldest daughter persistently plays their nostalgic love song with hopes of reuniting her parents.The second story is set in Paris in 1969 and focuses on Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis), a self-sufficient, loving single mother who becomes the embodiment of perseverance and selflessness as she promises to devote herself both physically and spiritually to her son Laurent, who has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. She spends every minute of spare time with her beloved young boy with the goal to elongate his limited life expectancy. One day, when Laurent begins to be infatuated by Véronique, a new girl in his class-- who, incidentally, also has Down syndrome-- Jacqueline is struck by an overwhelming feeling as she fears that her inseparable bond with the only person she loves will be be lost with time.Up until the very end of the film, it seems like the only link between both stories is the music the characters listen to (the jazz album "Café de flore" appears in the second story while a certain remix is featured in the first one), but as we progress further into this mystical mystery, we learn that there is something much deeper tying together the characters and their stories of love and loss. Knowing that "Café de flore" would be composed of intertwined stories, I was initially a little reluctant to seeing it and very worried that its structure would collapse within the first few minutes of the film. To my pleasant surprise, this modern approach to storytelling proved to be ultimately rewarding. I believe credit is due to the film editor, who is-- believe it or not-- Jean-Marc Vallée, again. It's nice to hear that he had control of almost every visual aspect of his own work of art. With Vallée's perfectly orchestrated editing, the audience is able to follow the story without ever sensing an abrupt switch between story lines. In the film's entirety, not once did I feel that some scenes were fragmented or disjointed from others. Vallée always progresses deeper into his creation by carefully and seamlessly shifting between narratives just at the right time, creating a smooth, fluid tempo. Briefly, everything flows like a river.