This extremely boring French film has been pushed on film students for years. The only enjoyable things about it are the Chanel costumes and Seyrig's beauty which is definitely helped by lighting, make up, black and white film stock and the clothes. I fail to see the reason nearly everyone raves about this film. I speak French, am a filmmaker, and I understand and have read many reviews about what Resnais was attempting to tell us. The bottom line: this film is just flat out boring. If, in real life, you've visited a palace such as Versaille or chatted with a young woman in a beautiful dress at a social gathering, there isn't much impact for this film to make on you.Mozart said of music: "it should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."This applies equally well to the seventh art form and this film is painfully boring to sit through.