Richard Gere stars in this American-made remake of the 1970 film Les Choses de la vie of French Director Claude Sautet based on the novel by Paul Guimard. This time around Mark Rydell, who enjoyed success with On Golden Pond, Cinderella Liberty, The Rose and The Reivers among others is the director. Sharone Stone, Lolita Davidavich and Martin Landau round out the cast but this is clearly a Richard Gere film. Although I'm generally not a fan of Gere he is excellent in this. This does have the feel of a European film and although I've never seen the original I would like to. I'd likely find it better as a whole. This is a good drama and although not a big movie it has a good look to it. I would give this a 7.0 on a scale of 10 for it's likable story and performance by Richard Gere,

As a consummate and long-time fan of Richard Gere's, this was a 'must have' for me and the acquisition was not a disappointment. As usual, Richard gave an excellent performance, for which I am never disappointed. Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich were great choices for the female characters and effectively displayed the contrast between the personalities of the women. This movie contained real aspects to a person's dilemma's in relationships...from a sterile, business 'association' with his first wife to a passionate and truly loving 'real-life' affair with the woman he met in a chance encounter. The drama of the accident was well done and suspenseful. In the end, the most touching aspect was that neither woman wished to hurt the other by disclosing what they each believed to be true - both were loved and wanted. I enjoyed it very much and it is a much-watched movie in my home with all actors performing excellently. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a love story which is true to real-life.

If you are a big fan of Richard Gere and Sharon Stone you will enjoy this very interesting film about Vincent Eastman(Richard Gere),"Shall We Dance",'04, who is a very very successful business man and has a fantastic wife,(Sharon Stone),Sally,"Catwoman",'04. However, the couple are hot for each other with a quickie love making scene and the marriage seems to drift a part. Lolita Davidovich,(Olivia Marshak), "Dark Blue",'02, catches Vincent's eye in more ways than one and things start to pick up romantically. Olivia is a reporter and seems like the perfect soul mate for Vincent and then the picture goes into many flash backs and twists and turns in the road. This is a very very down to earth film and worth the time to VIEW!

Spoilers herein.I admit to a weakness for any film that attempts to be architectural in some fundamental way. Even the failures - and they are mostly failures - are usually interesting. And this one features a redhead as well, a cinematic device that is similarly architectural in some ways. But that is another story.One of the small number (23?) of plots is: man makes - literally creates - his own world and it turns on him. He usually wins except in `adult' films where he doesn't. In this case, the creative medium is architectural. I'm not usually a fan of Gere, but I have to appreciate the way he moves. He's a dancer and the relationship he has to space is apt. The backdrop is rather ordinary: he is an architect we are told but the architecture shown is underwhelmingly faddish. But there is a nice touch in that the museum is for the Potlatch culture where the space of one is designed by the other side.A particularly apt architectural metaphor for the conflict depicted here, and the gifts exchanged at the end.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.