Sadly Over-hyped

Great Film overall

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

One of the Best Epic Films from France. The Film tells the stories of 4 families, from Paris, NY, Berlin and Moscow, since the beginning of WWII to the 80's, their lives and their tragedies, overcome these difficulties to finally all being reunited in a spectacular show at the Eiffel tower's feet listening Ravel's Bolero performed directed, danced and sung by the main characters.You will enjoy the film If not for the ploy for the music and choreographies. This film could be confusing when some actor plays the part of their own decedents, which is required by the plot to establish that he/she is a next of kin.it's still one of those rare films that you will love to watch from time to time, to remember us that we are all humans, life always ends in a full circle, the music is all around us and there is always hope that better times are coming.

I just got the Dutch-subtitled version on DVD this week. Almost impossible to get. The last time I saw this magnificent movie was 20 years ago, but it still works!!! For music lovers (who are usually also a bit sentimental) this movie is an absolute MUST. The build-up of the story is brilliant, one needs to see it several times to get everything right. I agree with other reviewers that James Caan was not very well cast. But still 10 out of 10. The way the stories intertwine is complicated but brilliant. In Holland it put Ravel's Bolero, which was originally composed as a ballet, back in the charts. I still hope to get the original six-hour version one day. If anyone has it on DVD (in whatever language), please let me know. If anyone is interested in the French version with Dutch subtitles,contact me and Í'll see what I can do.

Lelouch doesn't do bijou or minimal, even what was essentially an intimate love story, Un Homme et une femme was played out against a broad canvas of movie making and Formula 1 racing. If nothing else one has to admire not only the ambition but also the logistics involved in Les Uns et l'autres, a tapestry that weaves together three generations of four disparate families linked initially by World War II and secondly by equally disparate music encompassing ballet, classical and pop. Though the stories themselves are often ordinary to the point of banality we are never very far from spectacle in one form or another and from a motley group of fine actors I would single out Nicole Garcia's Jewish violinist whose husband perishes in the camps with honorable mention to that husband, Robert Hossein, plus Jacques Villeret and James Caan whilst Fanny Ardant was barely on screen long enough for her performance to be assessed. An exceptional film.

I'm amazed how few have seen this fabulous movie. Though not as perfect as the directors' Les Miserables, it is still a superb classic. I always have found it difficult to understand at first viewing, I now realize that this probably due to heavy editing from the original six hour french version. I hope that some day it is released in it's entirety.