Chaos and Desire (2002)

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This movie is unbelievably corny, and it's pretty disappointing at the end. I didn't mind it for most of the movie, but I was sort of appalled come the end--or, rather, a few minutes before the end, when the whole thing comes to wrap (or, in my opinion, completely unravel).In fact, this movie is what inspired me to finally register at IMDb to write a review.Julie Gayet earns the first three stars. The fourth goes to the rest of the cast and a fifth to the overall production being decent.But yeah, this script seemed to be written by a high school junior who just got dumped and was trying to woo back his love...or otherwise attempting--and failing fantastically--to be profound.

What a cool movie! I can't wait to watch it again. Watching Pascale drive her big truck down the road while 'Hey Good Lookin' plays on the 8-track---it doesn't get better than that. Except when Julie Gayet explains the attraction between the earth and the moon to little Camille. Or when Pascale yells 'Encore! Encore!' to the delight of the singing nuns. Or the magical ice cream cone that never went down more than 1/4" even though Camille was licking it all during the time her dad was making out with Pascale on the beach. Quite the fantastic movie, and one I will have to see over and over again.

When I saw the trailer of the movie and read the synopsis, I thought "Wow! This is going to be such a great movie!", but let me tell you I did not get what I was expecting.The movie is a never-ending circle: at each time there is a new element, it ends up just like the other one before "because it's a movie about the resemblance of love and the tides, the sea" (as Manon Briand said herself in French when I saw her). It was a falsely profound movie, falling into total esotericism.There were some funny parts, but the movie was not a comedy. The scenery was nice and the quality of the images was good too. The actors were good, but they were playing characters for whom I was unable to develop any kind of sympathy.I believe this movie will be appreciated by many (and I was already proven that), but I think it's only OK to watch but not great at all.[Actually, Luc Besson did about nothing in the movie. It was only his studio that helped a bit at realizing the film.]

A beautiful, thought-provoking and sexy film about what happens when a seismologist returns to her home town to investigate the mysterious cessation of the tide.This movie surprised and intrigued me. I never knew where it was going, but I was satisfied by where it took me. The opening sequence alone (set in Tokyo) was worth the price of admission. Funny and tragic at the same moment.I can see why Pascal Bussiere is a star in Quebec. She brings us into her story even as her character holds the world at arm's length. When she began to feel the effects of the tidal disturbance, I felt them too.I found director Manon Briand articulate and charming when she came to the Vancouver International Film Festival, but by then I had already seen and fallen in love with her movie.This one is definitely worth watching.