With Every Heartbeat (2011)

Wonderful character development!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

For quite a while I watched this film with interest and respect, but little by little I began to have some doubts about it and, then, I was turned off completely by the ludicrous ending. SPOILER I then looked back over the film and, bearing in mind the slight doubts I had about certain aspects of it even before the dreadful ending, and enlightened to no small extent by the variety of reviews from users on this website, I concluded that, all in all, it was something of a con and not to be taken too seriously (by con I mean a sort of confidence trick, almost too clever by half, or at any rate too clever for its own good). I didn't like either of the young women, but that is not in itself a reason to criticise the film. I thought the blonde girl was silly, unthinking and irresponsible (often called "free-spirited" – haha!), and I found the dark girl boring, repressed and depressed. If the blonde girl had been a guy she would probably have appeared as the worst sort of Casanova, or at any rate a guy who followed the urgings of his penis without for a moment engaging in any sense of responsibility. The dark girl, Mia, although engaged to be married in a short while to a reasonably normal and decent young man, allowed herself pretty quickly and willingly to be seduced by lesbian Frida and the two of them were soon having a good time in bed and apparently devoted to each other. They called it love – and here I am not making any distinction at all between love between two women and love between a man and woman – but it was nothing more than strong sexual attraction, for which, apparently, Mia was willing to ditch her man and change her life. As other reviewers have pointed out, the two of them never seem to have any sort of conversation together, let alone a meaningful one. Then there was the odd little bit of dialogue between the two of them when Frida suggests that Mia was more adept at making love to a woman than a "virgin" would have been and Mia acknowledged that she had had a previous lesbian relationship. Where was that supposed to take us? It gives the lie to the whole meaning that we had ingested up to that point, namely that Frida seduced an otherwise "normal" girl away from her man with her sexy wiles. Then we had the strange behaviour of Mia's father, who actually and literally refused to hear what Frida's mother was telling him, i.e. that Mia, his daughter, was in a lesbian relationship with her own daughter; and yet, within a very short while, he had changed from being in total denial to someone who admitted that he had had his "doubts" about his daughter before and now he simply wished her to be happy. But the final blow that convinced me, to my anger, that I had been led up the garden path all along, thinking that this was a serious study of passion (not love) between two women, was the pathetic ending that brought the whole film down to the level of a romcom – and not a very good one at that. I cannot believe that this was the ending that the auteur originally wanted. I suspect it was put in to satisfy the masses. We have Mia ditching her fiancé without a second thought (I do not know if we are supposed to feel she was in part justified because once, just once, he spoke a little harshly to her), dashing off wildly to beg Frida's mother to tell her where she had gone, racing to the airport, desperately trying to bypass the security man at the gate, watching, so we thought, the flight to Barcelona sailing off with Frida. The next thing is that we see Frida standing in the departure lounge looking wistfully at the plane. So she didn't go to Barcelona, huh? But that is not the end of it. She has gone on to take a plane, but not to Barcelona – that pretty little coastal town looks nothing like Barcelona – where the hell was it supposed to be? And in the twinkling of an eye – there is Mia prettily stepping up some pretty steps, accompanied by some pretty music, to see the lovely Frida sitting pensively on the sea wall, and the two of them with one look, pledge their eternities – I mean live happily ever after. Some chance! Frida will ditch Mia pretty soon, as she has already done to more than one of those who loved her. The writer would have done so much better to end the film with Mia being too late to stop Frida flying off to Barcelona. We would then be left to understand that things are not that easy, not that rosy for Mia's future, that you do not behave like she did without creating difficulties for yourself, and that in all probability the two of them are better apart, more likely to be happy in the long run apart, and that – we should be left to guess that this is a possibility – Mia will go back to her man, whom she seems to have loved well enough over the previous years, and certainly enjoyed sex with well enough, and will try to put things together again, but – our imagination will tell us – we do not know if she will succeed.

In this movie, the most credit goes to the director, camera and cinematography dept., because it was really beautifully filmed. Acting was also decent, considering the story. My score is based only on that.The story itself is quite dumb and unrealistic. Not the first part. In it we have two girls, both in serious relationships, who meet, feel the attraction and have a weekend fling. I can buy that, it happens all the time, no matter the sexual orientation.It is the second half of the movie that bugged me. In it we're to believe that after a roll on the hay and (I have too mention this, because it is important) very few words in between, these two feel that they're meant to be, that they're soul mates and that they can't live without one another. The words they exchange, in both love and anger, and the havoc they wreak after is something that might happen after a long affair, but not after 2 days.To me, this movie is nothing more than a filmed pulp romance novel - lesbian edition.

YES, undoubtedly this is the one of the best romantic, emotional, touchy movie I have ever seen in my life.Amazing performance by Mia and Frida, magnificent landscape of Sweden and fluency and realness in every scene made me impatient, excited and happy throughout the film.The film is not just about a love story between two woman, it is also struggle for today's people who believe in true love.On the one side Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) is a bit shy with Frida as normally at the beginning in their relationship.But after seeing honesty, warmth, sincerity in Frida's eyes, she began to look differently and gave her love for the Frida especially with her spectacular eyes.On the other side Frida( Liv Mjönes) draws a character who is not afraid of being seen by everyone for her love for woman and she was also insistent about the possibility of a real love between tho woman.Moreover she also abandoned from her girlfriend and expected it from Mia in the same way.For this reason we see many Fridas in our today's world. To sum up, love is everywhere and can be in every way and no one prevent it in real life.

Okay, it's sweet it really is, them trying to make a cute little flick about two girls falling in love. But, here's the thing, just because we're lesbians doesn't mean we fall in love after a few brief conversations and a little sexually frustrated fueled sexy times. First of all what kind of person is expected to fall in love with a love story about intentionally breaking hearts for the sake of one selfish relationship. Frida pursued Mia pretty aggressively after that first kiss, knowing damn well she had a nice, loving fiancé. And then! And then we find out she had her out doting girlfriend all along! What? Was that supposed to be a little plot twist? Because that just made me disrespect her even more. On top of all the cheating going on for a little lustfilled night with a stranger who was soon to be a step-sister, we come to find out they've both been negatively affected by cheating. Which makes me think that their whole attitude towards their tryst is completely out of character.Then frida goes a little coo coo kachoo arguing with Mia about being in love with the man she is supposed to marry all because they had one semi-romantic weekend?That's not someone I want representing me and my lesbianess in the media.And can I just say, Mia didn't even cut her nails for Frida. That's not love, my friends. The acting was sub-par and the plot was really just a subtle twist on a story that's been retold a hundred times. (How many lesbian movies do I have to watch where the girl with the boyfriend/fiancé/husband falls in love with a cute, Care-free girl, but doesn't want to accept it?) It's tired and played out.I didn't even want to watch the rest because their entire relationship thereafter is based off of a start I think it absurd....sexy or not. Honestly, I thought the parents' subplot was more interesting and real than Mia and Frida's. Their relationship and arguments seemed much more legitimate.