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Interesting storylines. Interesting characters. Juliette Binoche and Mélanie Laurent. Great soundtrack. And Paris, of course.

Some scenes/shots remind me of Fellini. Some, of Bergman. The typical (and great) Woody Allen´s "philoshopical comedy". One of his best films.
And a plus: Charlotte Rampling is stunning!

A true indie film with outsiders and fucked up characters. Till watch it, I thought Joel and Clementine (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) were the best offbeat couple, but not at all. Billy and Layla beat them being strangely romantic in a none romantic way.





















* The opening credits totally looks like Godard´s.

Isabel Coixet is definitely one of the best contemporary directors.
Her movies are full of inspiration and sadness and she always brings up the thin line between life and death in such a natural and delicate way.
Also in Elegy, she brings the "difficulties" or fears of a relationship with big difference of age; the cowardice and selfishness made up in a statement that such relationship can never work out.


- Beautiful women are invisible.
- Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her.
- But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.

*Penelope Cruz is fantastic.

After have watched "Chungking Express" and "2046", I could understand the disappointment of Kar Wai Wong´s fans with "My Blueberry Nights". It´s nice and I enjoyed it myself, but now, having watched "Hapy Together", I can ask it too: what happened? Maybe it was the west wind, who knows? or the too-famous-actors, but it just doesn´t have the depth, tragedy and beauty of these other movies.

"Happy Together" (don´t get tricked by the title) is an authentic Wai Wong love story with its ups and downs. Buenos Aires was the perfect choice to place the relationship of the two chinese men lovers as desperate and sensual as el tango Argentino. Homosexuality is not the main point and it is, actually, never judged. Everything is very natural and beautiful, quite different from Brokeback Mountain, for example. The characters are real, interesting, and the movie has that known Wai Wong stunned "atmosphere" with hot colours and decadent places.

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