Regarde la mer (1997)

Regarde la mer (1997). 52m | Unrated

“Ever since Iu0026#39;ve started writing comments on IMDb Iu0026#39;ve been writing about European movies more than about American, and Iu0026#39;ve suggested readers to watch most of them. I gave good marks to French movies, though many others (mostly American) movie-lovers found them pretentious, false artistic or boring. But now hereu0026#39;s the movie that expresses everything bad people have ever thought about French movies. Too short for a serious standard movie, too long for its weak story. Too much nudity for prudes, too little to be a soft-porn. Too many unimportant scenes, too little developing of characters. If Americans often make cover versions of French movies, this one shamelessly steels from US movies and still succeeds to make it boring, because we can expect in advance every important event and the revealing of secrets doesnu0026#39;t surprise us very much. Finally, the u0026quot;shockingu0026quot; end of the movie is in fact the only logical one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhatu0026#39;s good in the movie? Photography maybe, but it is so common in French movies that itu0026#39;s not necessary to emphasize it (no better, no worse than average French photo). The acting is also far below French standards. Paul as character might have also been omitted from the movie, he might have been left just as a person somewhere far away: it would have been intriguing for us to think if he existed at all. But it would be too, too much for writers to understand that.”