Our take
How does a standout director follow up to a film like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? With a more profound exploration of style, a further exploration of his originality. Gael Garcia Bernal (who you might know from Y Tu Mama Tambien) plays an imaginative but awkward kind of guy who falls for his cute neighbor, played Charlotte Gainsbourg. Bizarre and whimsical dream sequences follow and a sweet, if hesitant, love story unfolds. An eccentric, funny and very French movie (with most scenes in English).
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What it won
Cannes
1 win
Berlin
1 nom
Sundance
1 nom
European Film Awards
1 win
The story
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Elsewhere
"Possibly a very shallow work, but it's also exhaustively imaginative and bustles with wit and invention."
— Edward Lawrenson
"A whimsical, irrepressibly creative and playfully childlike confection."
— Todd McCarthy
Who picked it
Bilal Zouheir is the founder of A Good Movie to Watch. He is based in the US and a member of the Nevada Film Critics Society. He grew up in Morocco, where he learned English from watching movies. Bilal's work with A Good Movie to Watch is focused on offering an alternative to streaming algorithms, which are often used as commercial tools by streaming services.
