I am far from of the opinion that a film should be just an entertainment with lost of fast twists and turns, but still, films should - or could - be different from theatre performances where other moments and expressions prevail. Here, the background novella with the same name is dreamy enough, and the signature of Francis Ford Coppola has brought the scenes' progression to a hectic and often difficult-to-follow level, where even the good performance of Tim Roth (definitely in my Top10 list of distinctive actors) could not make all the events and motives understandable to me, I had to delve into the plot as a whole later on.As for other performances, there were no up to the task of Roth's, Bruno Ganz spend too little time on screen, but female characters remained incomplete to me. And all this for more than 2 hours... Well, it is not bad, no flop, but a kind of "film for art's sake" with the participation of some famous filmmakers.

i didn't see it all, and it was on a TV screen too, and it was late at night, and i was a little tired after another long days work, but for the first time in years i was transfixed and spellbound by cinema. as it should be. transfixed and spellbound. i forgot how tired i was, i forgot everything, i was so moved by it. first and foremost i saw a love film. and i would suggest i saw the director, as well, through this. a message from him and others about what is important in life, in the final analysis. if you ever read this, those involved in making this enthralling production, there is an old literary novel that, in my humble opinion, you have the sensitivity to portray...

This is just another failure from Francias Ford Coppola, director from classic like "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now", which have been involved in many bad projects like "Jack" or this one. It's rare to see such a gifted director stumble so badly. Coppola badly wants to say deeply meaningful things about life and love. Instead, his film ends up a jumbled mess of romance, Twilight Zone-type science fiction/horror, ancient mystery, pseudo-intellectual theorizing, bad camera angles, and a few unimaginative lightning effects. While this movie starts being somewhat interesting, it quickly turns into a boring, endless mess where nothing has sense at all. And to get it worse, it is made in the most tedious, monotone way that somebody could think. There are scenes that don't make sense at all and that are completely irrelevant to the main plot of the movie.Just like "One From the heart" this is one of the most personal projects from Coppola, but also one of the most flawed and uninteresting as well.

I'm stupid enough to be really honest here. I didn't completely understand all of the film. I didn't. I know the film is about perception and time but there is more here and I'm human enough to say I can't quite put it all together. The acting is excellent. The photography beautiful. The locations used were fantastic. I did enjoy the film but I really didn't find it all that engaging. Perhaps that is because I didn't grasp all of it. Not a bad film by any means but it got a little bit weird in certain parts and I don't think everyone is going to love it. I'm glad I saw the film but wouldn't sit through it again.