Café de Flore (2012)

Please don't spend money on this.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

At the beginning, i thought that the movie is too slow for me, but then, when i finally let myself to it and just went along with the story, i really loved it. I feel somehow different after watching it, my state of mind has been changed, and i feel so light and heavy at the same time. I appreciate it the most when a movie makes a change in my soul. That's why i gave this movie such a good rating.Other than that, the acting was great, and the story was more or less original. Well, original enough for me. Beautiful music, nicely woven into the plot; excellent photography. This movie has a real potential. Nostalgia-driven, expressive, thought-provoking, at times optimistic and at times deeply sentimental, it teaches about "letting go". And i feel that's a truly important lesson in life. It deserves all the attention it can get.Loved it.

well it was like a whole new experience ..... i don't know i felt like my mind now is opened to new things that could happen the best part for me when she said that she needed to know why the hell she ended up like this why the only man she's known left her ? nd she has to know the answer or just die Then the only solution she got was the weirdest one ever though it felt convincing nd it full up all her empty emotional questions and if she ever would tell anybody about it they would call her crazy , but she felt it that it's the only answer maybe not realistic but it's somehow very true maybe we can't handle answers for the questions of WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME ... anyways the movie is just great

I scared myself when I cried with the Sigur Ros song in the film, out of blue, in the dark cinema with only 3 other strange people there. This is a film about dream and love, and what are you supposed to do if your dream is all about the one you love, and what if you spend all your life protecting a dream that never meant to belong to you. This is the question in front of Jacqueline and Carole. After all, having a dream that connected to human beings is a dangerous thing to do.Using two parallel story lines is no more a novelty in film making. Yet the film does not give us much information on the relation between the two very different stories—a single mother, Jacqueline, with her Down's syndrome son, Laurent, in 1960s and a couple (Carole and Antonio) facing betrayal and the sequential mental stress today. The only correlations between them are Carole's strange dreams and "Cafe de Flore"—the songs with the same name that people from two spaces and times happened to play. Two and a half hours is a long duration for an independent art film, and in most of the time, these two stories are separately told, slowly and beautifully, and I thought maybe that's it, there would be no overlap between the two stories, until Carole figured out her connection with the mother and son from the last life.I watched Cafe de Flore by myself in a small cinema in the suburb of London. Tranquillity is all you need when encountering a beautiful film like this. Crying like a baby in the cinema, I had to sit there for a while until the film credits finished in order to give myself some time to look normal before going out. And the film is such a great comfort for some reason, it's cathartic. The original soundtrack is another important reason to make the film so moving. Interestingly, Sigur Ros's music video svefn-g-englar featured with Down's syndrome dancers, could be the initial inspiration of Cafe de Flore?

IMHO there are two categories of movies: the ones that impress me when I see it, like Hollywood blockbusters which shock me with stunning visual effects, or action scenes, or dramas. There is another category, that don't produce much of an impression when I see it, I get even bored wondering myself why did I pay the ticket for it. But.. suddenly after a couple of hours, or days, they become alive inside me and haunt me after. "Cafe De Flore" is one of those! It doesn't have a story to tell, it is pure art. The authors plant a seed that is intended to grow inside the viewer. It doesn't try to convince you of anything, doesn't draw a conclusion in the end, just places frame after frame and leave the interpretation to you. I would rate it 8 out of 10. regards, Andrei