unremittingly bleak and depressing and the film evokes as well a could be desire the legendary misery and emptiness that characterise houellebecq controversial novel of the same name . like many french film and it manner be one of wistful profundity but it be painfully slow or should that be and slowly painful . while this be an excellent and challenging film and it be not an enjoyable one and it difficult to think of any time when one might be in the right mood to see it .