Another great - for its genre- french film. Like all good comedies it doesn't lack realism -even though some excessive elements are there too- and its intrigue is compelling enough to keep the viewer's strong interest from the very start to its end. What i mean is that this movie, being a comedy, is allowed to base its story on certain unreal background factors not having to fully explain or take that serious certain details of its script. And of course the viewer in turn shouldn't bother to analyze how f.ex, far as this very film is concerned, one is so easily supposed to that perfectly be able to stage fake situations -making them look real- in order to influence people's minds about their love choices! Yet, unrealistic elements are always part of a comedy film if only they serve as background of the main story-line, Just like in a science fiction story a lot it is about is fiction and given this the realism of the main story is separately to check out. Given all this, I would have given ten -bright- stars to this brilliant film and to its intriguing main story-line if its very ending was not that Hollywood typical cliché like, which i think takes away a part of the film's otherwise sincere approach to the situation it describes, given of course the genre it belongs to.Yet this is not enough to spoil the overall good vibes it gives.

Why did I rate this a 9. Because this movie sort of finds the line between romance and comedy. It does not try to make a statement or deliver cheap laughs. The movie is beautiful and classy (beautiful like Mr Beans holiday). The scenery is good enough so you can just stare at the background with awe(I once did) and well I don't want to give away anything so go see the movie it is beautiful. They mix music with the scenes very very well The main actress is beautiful I mean the persona not just looks you can stare at her if you don't like the countryside :)(little bit of clementine effect in ESOTSM if you know what I mean) Also there are no plot holes "where it matters". The problem with watching these is that you find it hard to watch a Hollywood movie later because they sort of rush somethings.Much much better than most of the Hollywood rom coms that came in recent times and pretty much entertainning

I really LOVED this movie, I watched it to waste my time cause I was bored, but since the beginning and it's getting better, I was smiling all along while I'm watching this, and I laughed really loud, this is the kind of romantic comedies that I'm looking for and you can't find such an incredible movie everyday, I really liked the kind of the relationship in this movie, it's tough, there's suffering, laughing, romance, french people never fail to make me laugh and appreciate the love, romance, and hats off for everyone that worked hard to get us such a great movie. so if u didn't watch this yet go ahead and have fun laughing and (kinda)crying, and you're lucky to have an unwatched awesome movie that is PERFECT <3

It is perhaps impolitic to say so, but Vanessa Paradis may just have the ugliest set of teeth to blight the mouth of any leading actor, French or otherwise, in the 100 year history of cinema. I mention this not to be cruel, but to highlight one of the fundamental problems with this movie, which is namely - its leading lady looks like a hastily costumed, warmed-up corpse. An avid observer of French cinema might shrug this off as an irrelevancy, but for a populist movie with ambitions to appeal to a broader, Anglophile audience, it is no small detail that the purported object of desire in a movie framed as a "romantic comedy" is frankly, pretty undesirable. Ms Paradis is no doubt a woman of many fine qualities and abilities, but it is apparent in her performance that she is either acutely self-conscious of - or has been directed to avoid - showing her teeth. This limits her facial expression to the degree that her character in the movie is utterly devoid of any warmth or other noticeable, agreeable signs of humanity. This issue is further compounded by a trite and mostly unfunny script, throughout which Ms Paradis and the rest of the ensemble look constipated. I'm pretty sure that's not just a French thing, either. This is a film to be avoided at all costs. If you find the concept of the movie too compelling to resist, at least wait for the English language remake due any time soon, which by rights could only improve on this Gallic disaster.