Lost and Delirious Reviews and Ratings


  • shelisewoods
    November 16, 2009
    shelisewoods
    I would have to say, best movie i have ever seen

    saw it like 6 years ago and just cant get it out of my head ever since.
  • theloneowl
    November 13, 2009
    theloneowl
    Oddio, quante volte l'avrò visto questo film? Troppe.
    C'era stato il boom di questo film, me lo ricordo bene, e io ce l'ho addirittura in vhs (!!)
  • kramcup
    September 19, 2009
    kramcup
    The most sadest lesbian-theme movies I have ever seen. It made me cried so many times. One of my favourite movie.
  • meeshe011
    September 7, 2009
    meeshe011
    Good ...until someone commits suicide... Love Piper Perabo!
  • medullavespertinetmf
    August 27, 2009
    medullavespertinetmf
    Parejita incomprendida y la amiga de las dos que se siente confundida por sus sentimientos hacia ellas. Buen final.
  • adhdgoldfish
    August 19, 2009
    adhdgoldfish
    this is probably one of the saddest movies I've seen.
  • natalyvg92
    August 10, 2009
    natalyvg92
    i felt so bad they couldnt love each other
  • hitandrunfacetofacedreams
    July 30, 2009
    hitandrunfacetofacedreams
    Lea Pool...one of my favorites!
  • SirGenius
    July 17, 2009
    SirGenius
    No dont do it, oh look a bird.
  • samanthapoxton
    July 8, 2009
    samanthapoxton
    A girl's obsession with one of her classmates.
  • rusky0
    June 25, 2009
    rusky0
    Wow! Didn't aspect that this movie would be that good.
    I know what Paulie felt when her lover Tori let her like that, it's just like hell. I'm glad that I've watched Lost and Delirious it's just amazing.
    When I first saw the cast and when I've noticed that Mischa Barton pl...( read more)ays in it I didn't expect her to be good but i changed my mind :D she did a great job. Piper Perabo played the heartbroken Paulie and she was amazing, love her.

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    Tori: Paulie, listen to me ok, because I'm going to say this once and never, ever again. I will never love anyone the way that I love you. Never. You know that, and I know that, and I will die knowing that, ok? But it just can never... it just can never, ever, forever be. Do you understand? It just can never, ever, forever be.
  • Mjcvb
    June 18, 2009
    Mjcvb
    "Shall I abide / In this dull world, which in thy absence is / No better than a sty?"
  • LitelBluHli
    June 11, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    I saw this on television years ago and have seen it a couple more times after that. It has some how stayed with me as I thought it wasn't your typical teen movie, it was much more dark and dramatic. The acting by the young girls were pretty good. There's also girl on girl action ...( read more)in here if you're into that.
  • Tetsuo8
    April 27, 2009
    Tetsuo8
    I'll watch it just because of the title
  • NikDaChic
    April 3, 2009
    NikDaChic
    I was sucked in by it's purity, the urgency of Paulie for someone to understand the depth of her hurt, the longing and betrayal. I loved Misha Barton's role as someone just looking from the outside, being sucked into a maze that keep spiraling downward. I felt for both of the you...( read more)ng lovers. Here is one, struggling to fit into the mold her life needs to be, to please her parents, her sister, the noble balance of the world. While the other just wants to be alive, the clarity of a moment spent with the one who carries your heart away...male or female. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
  • oscartorrado
    March 11, 2009
    oscartorrado
    Another look to teens realtionship, this time in a way different side: a love story about two girls. Lost and Delirious is a well made movie with clever dialogues and nice performances.

    An erotic film full of poetry and passion!!!
  • bruiser6969
    January 19, 2009
    bruiser6969
    GREAT MOVIE, made me cry. It was a great love story.
  • verivals
    January 16, 2009
    verivals
    Love story!!!!!!!





    that movie make me cry!!!!!!!!

    really!!!!!!!!!
  • Halliwellsurf03
    December 15, 2008
    Halliwellsurf03
    Sad =( I feel so bad for Pipers character
  • EarthlyAlien
    December 3, 2008
    EarthlyAlien
    Paulie: "Lesbian? Lesbian? Are you fucking kidding me, you think I'm a LESBIAN?
    Mouse: You're a girl in love with a girl, aren't you?
    Paulie: No! I'm PAULIE in love with TORI. Remember? And Tori, she is, she IS in love with me because she is mine and I am hers an...( read more)d neither of us are LESBIANS!"

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    There are, these days, a few kinds of films that I just can't approach without some feeling of dread. They could just be American remakes, pretentious indie love stories, or anything from Joel Schumacher, Steven Soderbergh or John Waters (all pantsless emperors in their own minds). One little and hubris-filled genre is the "coming of age" film. It took me years of hard living to dim my own memories of my own passage through the gauntlet of the teen years. Why the hell would I book a sepia-toned sentimental journey back with some hack still brooding over not getting a date to the prom?

    At that hormonally charged age, every issue you face seems to be of the exact same epic importance. By the time you reach 18 and maybe go away to college, none of it seems to have really meant shit. I don't even like being around teenagers now. I just feel like hitting them in the face. When you see them in a group of any size, their stupidity only seems to multiply, particularly when they have to deal with anything even remotely serious. What could possibly make this kind of thing go down easier? The easiest, most macho answer to that question would be "some hot teenage girl-on-girl action doesn't hurt." It's not like I disagree... if you know what I mean, but Lost and Delirious has so much more going underneath its skin that it has the ability to get to even the most hormonal, dumb, horny teenage boy you can think of.

    Director Léa Pool (a renowned filmmaker in Canada, but completely unknown around here) and screenwriter Judith Thompson don't shy away from that little element in this adaptation of Susan Swan's novel, "The Wives of Bath." Set in a Canadian girls' boarding school, our introduction to this world coincides with that of new arrival Mary (Mischa Barton). Dumped there by her dad and hated new stepmother, the intelligent but meek girl more often answers to the nickname "Mouse." Her real education comes courtesy of her two new roommates, both hellbent on loosening her up. The popular Tori (Jessica Paré) is well-developed both intellectually and, uh, physically. The cute, eccentric Paulie (Piper Perabo) is by far the biggest risk-taker and pleasure-seeker around; possibly the closest thing in school to a "bad" girl. What Paulie actually takes the most pleasure in turns out to be Tori. As Mary soon witnesses, her roommates have advanced well beyond close to becoming (clandestinely) intimate. Paulie deeply loves Tori as totally as a teenage girl can. Tori reciprocates, for now. Mary, to her credit, addresses the situation only with acceptance and support for what are now her two best friends.

    There's one scene that comes at this point that points the way toward the troubled paths each girl will take. Sitting around their room, Paulie asks each of them what they would put in a letter to their respective mothers. Mary, whose mother is dead, is concerned with her feelings of loneliness and need for closure. Paulie, who was given up for adoption by her much sought birth-mother, wants to tell her she harbours no ill will and only desires some kind of personal connection and reconciliation. Tori, unfortunately, lives in fear of crossing her cold, ultra-conservative parents. Uh-oh. Maybe you can see where this is going.

    Early one morning, Tori's prissy little sister barges in with her friends only to find big sis and Paulie still asleep, mostly naked and wrapped around each other. Fearing ostracism from both classmates and family, Tori backpedals as far from Paulie as possible. Quickly pegged as some kind of obsessive, unbalanced lesbian, the dual rejection by both Tori and her birth mother push poor Paulie to the point that she really starts to live up to that image. Feeling a bit betrayed by her own father, Mary is the one person to stick by her jilted friend. Her primary reward for helping Paulie is to have the bitchy rumour police to come after her as well. It all gets really ugly. Sink or swim time. Tossed into the deep end, each girl better learn how to paddle fast or somebody is likely to die.

    Lost and Delirious' biggest quality is something that tons of filmmakers often forget: it feels honest, most of the time anyway. "Lesbian coming-of-age" flicks are often excruciating because the storytellers are too wrapped up in expressing a positive tale of sexual awakening and pseudo-feminism instead of showing the utter crap-fest of confusion and uncertainty that the majority of the human race seems to experience. That's definitely not a problem here.

    The situation of these girls is familiar. The subjects are treated gently - almost too gently - but the relationship is a passionate one. Pool treats the girls with respect and the film flourishes in a naïve curiosity. One of the most beautiful things Lost and Delirious does is the way it examines the complexity and changeability of a friendship/relationship. Pool efficaciously shows how the luster of the friendship fades, even deteriorates, first, through the break-up of the girls, and then through the audience as we speculate about Pauline's negative and wild behaviour. To manipulate characters labelled as good or bad seems something easily enough controlled, but generally it is something that is set and established from start to end, only increasing as the film progresses. Yet Pool puts the girls on a similar trajectory during the start and begins developing in that direction, only to split them apart and have us question both of their actions - favouring one over the other - only to sort of "recall" that judgement to better assess it on your own. It's one of the most enviable qualities this offers.

    There's no gratuitous sex or nudity between the girls, but there are a couple of tender, sweet scenes that they share. It doesn't matter if it's in the still of the night in a silhouette, or a well-lit scene where they're fooling around, but it's tasteful and very erotic. I'll bet any number of guys went to see the wet dream of Coyote Ugly one year before this in hopes of catching some kind of nudity on behalf of the salacious and seductive girls casted. Good has a tendency to come to those who wait, and generally in forms more unexpected and surpassing of previous expectation. Since I saw Piper Perabo in that awful Steve Martin film Cheaper by the Dozen she's always had an undeniable charm and attractiveness that I liked. Her apropos choice of nudity in this film, and under the conditions that it is used seem quite appropriate. In relation to the sex and nudity, young Québécois Paré additionally handles it calmly and believably; the more voluptuous of the two, she shares a strange likeliness to Natalie Portman in looks and other occasional mannerisms such as her crying. The anachronism of these Natalie-isms is a welcome familiarity that automatically puts Paré into a more respectable and favourable class.

    Where the film falters most is with Mischa Barton's character Mary, who supposedly is in danger of slipping into reckless emotional turmoil herself for reasons that never seem to fully materialize. I'm not certain that the film could be done without her, but her issues are definitely not where our focus lands. I tend to be wary of films or TV shows that quote extensively from Shakespeare, as it seems a short cut trick designed to confer weight to a subject by dropping in the words and ruminations of a more clever author. It works here, I think, but it teeters on being too much at times. The other... weakness? Issue? I don't know exactly, but the other thing that needles me is the sense that the story gives us no hope, no answers or anything we can take and learn. It's just so altogether god-damn sad that we wish there was some sort of redemption possible, but there comes a point before the end when we realize that this isn't going to be the case. And maybe it just wasn't supposed to.

    There's this bit in J. R. R. Tolkein's "The Silmarillion" - and by "bit," I mean a good chunk, since the man was nothing if not verbose that spoke of how the world was created out of music, and music which was intensely beautiful by virtue of the fact that it was so very sad. I understand what this means, and the fact that I do so quite effortlessly, and recognize that most other people would also understand this concept with little difficulty, makes me ponder upon just how tremendously fucked-up humans are as a species. Sadness isn't beautiful when it's our own. It's painful and wrenching and everything but beautiful when we're in the midst of it. Why then do we see beauty in tragedy? I can only surmise that it's a defence mechanism developed to keep us from completely cracking up; nothing else seems to fit.

    I mention Tolkein partly because I'm a mild geek, but also because thematically it's not all that different. This story, like most of Tolkein's work, treats emotions in the superlative, and in huge, broad strokes. It has no room for irony or post-modern cynicism. It takes love deadly seriously, as something that transcends mere existence, and it doesn't have the most optimistic outlook on just how such an uncompromising view of love and loyalty is likely to turn out in the end. This, despite the complete lack of similarity in setting, is where I saw a similarity, since, as one character mentions in Lost and Delirious (though in reference to Shakespeare, not Tolkein), the subject is still relevant, and still the cause of much human angst. I just don't think it should.
  • tjtenderhearted
    December 3, 2008
    tjtenderhearted
    I loved the story behind this movie... the poetry and writings
  • sonieczka89
    November 26, 2008
    sonieczka89
    Best Mischa Barton act, some people do not even know she can play so well after just seeing her playing in easy comedies.The most moving and breathtaking film I've ever seen.I can't even describe it, you just have to see it.
  • blackeyedsurfer
    November 25, 2008
    blackeyedsurfer
    Not only is this movie humourless, on second viewing I realized the writing is beyond horrible.
  • scottydgibbs
    November 13, 2008
    scottydgibbs
    a very good early role for piper parabo,, before her breakthrough in cayote ugly, but then dident live up to it, here she plays one of 3 girls at a girls school, and her dealings with being a lesbian,its not all her story but is best thing in it,
  • justinevryan
    November 10, 2008
    justinevryan
    One of the most well acted and emotional movies around.
  • moondemon17
    November 8, 2008
    moondemon17
    This movie is so sad
  • amberpadgett76
    October 8, 2008
    amberpadgett76
    Watched on IFC. Weird and interesting.
  • SamSky
    October 3, 2008
    SamSky
    cry again and again













    heart broken
  • jhonnyjj
    September 24, 2008
    jhonnyjj
    This is a very great
    movie!
  • ralch
    September 8, 2008
    ralch
    Intensa, apasionada e interesante, pero también desequilibrada en cuanto a estilo y realización. Sus intenciones sobrepasan al producto final. / Intense, passionate and interesting, but also unbalanced in style and workmanship. Its intentions surpass the end result.
  • lookin4myass
    September 7, 2008
    lookin4myass
    finally watched it!!!!!.....omg!...i love this movie!!!!...the ending is perfect!
  • buenagirl1611
    August 31, 2008
    buenagirl1611
    the end is very sad :-( but is very interesting!!!!
  • Rjdilloway
    August 23, 2008
    Rjdilloway
    I love this movie, sad ending though
  • thewalrus666
    August 20, 2008
    thewalrus666
    I don't know why I love this film so much, it might have been because I found a great movie by accident, maybe it's because it has lesbians in it, maybe it's because heartbreak, something only addressed usually in parts of tacky romance films. I don't know why i love it but I do....( read more)

    The conceit of the film isn't anything special until the "couple" is forced to break up due to social, family and authoritative pressures. One of the girls takes it fine and pretends to be straight the other becomes almost obsessive trying to win back her girlfriend and becomes extremely aggresive.

    There's an interesting sub-text about weather the first girl is actually hetero or pretending so that she can be accepted, especially by her family. But this just plays second fiddle to Piper Perabo's portryal of a broken and desperate heart until finally she challenges her Ex-girlfriend's boyfriend to a fencing bout, seriously wounding him, than fleeing out of sight to reappear when a tragedy strikes that, after it's happened, seems like it was inevitable from the moment they were split apart

    I recommend this film to anyone. srsly but there are some people that are gonna like it more than others
  • Maic0
    August 14, 2008
    Maic0
    This film really surprised me. I didn't think it would be very good after reading the synopsis but I was completely wrong. I was thinking girls in a boarding school, sexually frustrated, equals lots of lesbian sex scenes. Not like that at all. Respect to the director for keeping ...( read more)everything tasteful as i'm sure the temptation to make everything outrageous so the film would appeal to all those warm blooded males out there, was pretty high.
    The story begins with Mary, Mouse, whatever you wanna call her. She is dropped off at an all girls boarding school, she is introduced to Tori and then Paulie. It is through Mary's eyes that we slowly become familiarised with these two characters and their involvement with each other. Just as Mary, at the beginning, isn't entirely sure about the relationship between these two girls, it is not made entirely clear to us either. Slowly, the director hints at what is really going on.
    Mary is played by Mischa Barton. This is one of her very early roles and she looks incredible young as well, as the other characters point out. It is not made clear whether she is actually the same age as the other girls who appear around the age or 16 or 17, or whether she is around 14 and has been moved up a few years because of her intelligence. I'm tempted to say she is 14 but then she does mention the town she came from was still living in the 50s, so it could be the case that she is just a little naive. Mischa does a decent job. Plays the character very quietly which works well because of the more larger characters or Tori and Paulie. You would then think that she would just disappear into the background but this, surprisingly doesn't happen. Tori is played by Jessica Paré. She does a very good job as well. At the beginning her character seems very friendly and self-assured. This seems to pitter out as the plot unfolds but she is very enjoyable to watch. Paulie is played by Piper Perabo, who always manages to surprise me. She always impresses no matter what kind of character she plays and yet she rarely gets any credit for it. It's also surprising that she plays gay characters, probably better than someone who is actually gay. I always found it odd that she was drawn towards characters like this, but I read something about her talking about her roles like this, and she said it was about nothing more than love. And I think that sums up her character in this film very well. It didn't matter whether it was a guy or a girl it was only about love. Her performance in this film is actually outstanding and probably the best i've seen from her. The character is very passionate and outgoing, loving and obviously fragile all at the same time, and she just seemed to embody all of these emotions. The story itself, is very tragic and although there were no tears it did make me feel really bad.
    Don't catagorise this film as typical, it is a lot more than that, even if you're not normally into this kind of film, I suggest you give it a shot. It's not your normal romantic drama and not because the characters are gay, but because it isn't pretentious, it doesn't take itself too seriously but it takes the matter at hand seriously. It's not cheesy, or drawn out, it isn't something it's not. It's a simple love story that makes you think long and hard about love and the way people view it.
  • auschulz
    July 21, 2008
    auschulz
    I Loved it the first time I saw it so I went out and bought it! I've never regretted it! I LOVE PIPER PERABO!!
  • JaredsBaby
    July 17, 2008
    JaredsBaby
    Came across this one on cable one day.....a interesting story of young girls away at school....so you know right off the bat there is going to be drama
  • beckys2304
    July 15, 2008
    beckys2304
    this film was odd but good thats two leabian fils for piper perbo both ok
  • angelicscarz33
    July 7, 2008
    angelicscarz33
    This was a very moving movie. Watching this movie was like being on a rollercoaster of emotions. I really enjoyed this movie although the end of the movie was heartbreaking and had me in tears.
  • tessiedog2007
    July 6, 2008
    tessiedog2007
    best film ever i love it and so want it on dvd.this film is amazing and the end is really good.
  • lpdarkangel23
    July 5, 2008
    lpdarkangel23
    I love this movie! my fav.!!
  • chocolaterox93
    July 5, 2008
    chocolaterox93
    i thought it went to fast but other than that it was good!
  • flexysms
    June 30, 2008
    flexysms
    the best movie what i have seen.

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Lost and Delirious Summary