‘Very Good: 6 votes
=> The Shining meets 10 Commandments!
=> If this was a crossword, I would not have solved it. Not everyone goes to Paris and has two women during the length of a film.
=> Enigmatic and other-worldly; an unravellment!
=> I can tell you what ‘happened’! but to say what it was ‘about’ will need some further refection – digestion. But absorbing!
=> Enjoyed the film very much – love Kristin Scott Thomas anyway – not quite sure what actually happened in the film but didn’t think that really mattered. An enjoyable way to spend the evening – very art-house!

‘Good’: 12 votes
=> Would like to speak to the Director and perhaps then understand what it was all about
=> For an enigmatic story it failed to draw the audience into any of the mystery – was Tom truly violent (he hardly seemed so), had he been in prison or Hospital, was Margit a ghost/figment of his imagination/manifestation of his dark side? Did any of us care?
=> Promising start, intriguing middle & unsatisfactory, unresolved & unconvincing end. Where was it supposed to be going?
=> The write’s muse is a demanding mistress!
=> Not what I was expecting – a bit of a muddle at the end!
=> Remember we are told he is mad
=> Seemed incomplete. More info – too many unexplained facts.
=> Didn’t understand. But perhaps that [?] comprehend all meanings of ‘vive la différence’. Excellent photography
=> Good in parts. The events didn’t hang together as well as they could have.
=> Mysterious. I shall be confused for a long time…
=> Entertaining but difficult to understand.

‘Satisfactory’: 6 votes
=> A muddle [?] & quite dull
=> Too confusing even though I had read the book! Didn’t feel it had a point.
=> Acting superb – but where was it trying to go?
=> [?] – even in a rubbish film, Kristen S.T. is credible. Did he get the part because he can look soulful? Started well but then dribbled into inanity.
=> I like films with an understandable ending, so it didn’t really do it for me! Fun though!
=> Woody Allen has better jokes!

‘Poor’: 5 votes
=> The worst, most pretentious film I have ever seen at the Film Club. A very long and tedious 85 minutes.
=> Too clever for me
=> Baffling; in the end, it just didn’t add up.
=> Not sure what this film was about in terms of the story. OK, we appreciate he is a tortured soul, but that only takes you so far. Too much is confusing in this story.
=> Oh the impenetrable mysteries of the tortured male soul… About ½ way through I even found the cinematography annoying. In another story it could have been good. Worst film so far, by far! About 80 minutes too long. And Kristin Scott Thomas – what a waste to have her playing such a ridiculous role! PS: I did like the ‘realism’ of the Parisian scenes, especially the café & horrible digs, which v. much reminded me of student days in 1968

2 comments without a vote:
=> Puzzled?
=> I didn’t understand it