You won't be disappointed!

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I saw this movie last night. I like it very much. Sure, I know what the ending will be since I have watched so many of these love films. What really caught my attention was when Wendy telling Xavier that she loves him and that though he is imperfect (who is perfect), compared to Ed (her former boyfriend), Xavier is a day at the beach. She then tells him, that a lot of girls fall for the beauty and perfection of that person, and that is all they want to see. She looks beyond that, she falls for the imperfection and the defects of Xavier. In real life, most of us only care for the beauty and the nice things of the person we infatuate with. We gloss over the imperfections. Once the beauty has worn off, we then notice the imperfections which we dislike. Eventually it will lead to a fallout. In a way this movie taught us that love is when you look beyond the beauty and perfection, you find the defects and imperfection, somehow you still love that person. It is quite different from yes, he or she has imperfections and defects, but I will be able to change these once we are together.

It looks like the European cinema is not exempted from the temptation of commercial remakes. This may be the reason director Cédric Klapisch gets back to his set of characters from the 'L'Auberge Espagnole' and takes them a few years later in another set of romantic comedy adventures set in Paris, London and St. Petersburg. Unfortunately the attempt fails quite badly. I did not like too much 'L'Auberge Espagnole' either, it looked to me like some kind of American college comedy taken into Europe, but at least it had the common background of the rented apartment and a few good although stereotype comic moments. In LPR all these are gone, and we are left with the romantic tribulations of the principal character played by Romain Duris which the males of us certainly can envy for the number of gorgeous women he is bedding, but we really cannot understand why, because he is not either too good looking not too interesting as a character. The director seems to rely exclusively on the charm of his actors and this trick mainly fails or certainly cannot raise too much the interest of this rather boring and not funny comedy. Last word is for Audrey Tautou, why does the fabulous actress who was the fabulous Amelie Poulain let herself be so under-cast in such movies?

This french film is a sequel of L'Auberge Espagnol, a good film about a bunch of European students sharing a small apartment in Barcelona. There were some problems with that movie, though, that appear upfront in the sequel. Namely, this purports to be a celebration of a new, united Europe, but instead, it celebrates an isolated class, terribly content with itself. It is indeed very strange that in a film about Europe's youth, no third world immigrants appear, none of the characters seems to be unemployed or having employment problems. They seem too content seeing themselves as the people that will rule Europe tomorrow, and if that is true, you must start feeling sorry for that continent, since these people are smug, self-involved, and care very little about the misfortunes of others.

We enjoyed this film and are planning on going back again. It was a good film about modern romance. It has a lot of depth. The story was good, and the editing was great, some visual treats.The story covers a lot of ground but is very well paced,typified by the train going back and forth between London and Paris. Xavier, like many of the characters is experiencing love on many levels, not understanding everything that he is going through, and who hasn't experienced that! Sometimes we search for love, sometimes, like for William and Natacha you just know right away.There were many great visual moments, but certainly there was one of the best "hand holding" scene's in a movie. The scene of Xavier and Wendy working in the library together was a wonderful visual ballet between two people working together. There were a lot of those moments in this film, that make us want to go back and see it again.Even though the film is s sequel it stands very well on it's own.We enjoyed, we hope you do too.