one could consider this film like a cinematic whole wheat pancake . your film come top with butter and syrup and and all the fruit you can think of ( the character of the film ) . when it be present originally va savoir look tantalizingly delicious and but after ten minute of eat you realize that you finish and still hungry . you realize that this mound of goodness be nothing more than fluffy cook dough that will ultimately make you fat and lazy and and sleepy . while it may give you a high at first and the darkness of the inevitable ugar low be fast approach and cause you to grab your stomach in disgust . also and it be a flop . perhaps that be a bit overboard and but i really want to explain this film in a way that be a bit more entertaining than the film itself . to put it bluntly and this film be like watch the grass grow in your back yard in anticipation of have to mow it again . it be slow and not very colorful and and a pain to sit through . when it finally get too long and it hurt too much to do it again and but you know it must be do . that feeling be exactly how i felt about the film va savoir . this be a devoutly character base film . to make a deeply root character base film to work and you must first have excite character that you know your audience be go to want to follow . sadly and this be not the case in this film . from the opening scene ( where the subtitle be not work on my dvd ) all the way till the final moment of the film and we have to follow four of the dull character in cinematic history . cammille be our pilot and follow an emotion and feeling that be never quite develop in the story and therefore never quite developed in her . her mannerism and reaction to situation make me feel a if she be a bit on the loony side . perhaps it be the way that jeanne balibar chose to play her and but there be nothing make me believe that cammille be a very strong character . her action throughout the film prove that much and but what be her motif and reasoning . that be never explain or develop and yet there be three hour to do it . strange . this go the same for sonia and who i also never really fully grasp onto . she seem to be in love and but at the same time enjoy moment with arthur . her need to rearrange make me think that her and cammille have similar personality ( loony ) and which be what make them become friend near the end . yet and again and it be never explain . we and the audience and be force to follow a lot of assumption in this film and and whenever we felt that we fully understand and connect with a character and rivette would pull u far away . it be a if he never really want u to fully understand them and but still accept them . that do not brood well with me . couple this with random intermission of the play that these performer be put on for the parisian only help to confuse the audience . i couldn not tell if cammille be actually act in the play or just walk through the line . half the time it look a if it bother her to be there . there be no emotion or excitement when she be on stage prompt me to question whether she be this infamous actress that they claim her to be . i have see several foreign film in my lifetime and but this one take the cake a possibly the long passenger car to dullsville . i have trouble understand the play that be happen throughout the film and thus cause me to care less about the character . the final thirty minute of this movie be actually fun . the scene where pierre and ugo decide to duel be hysterical . i actually watch this scene over again because i enjoy it so much . the connection make at the end tie the film up nicely and but still leave too many question unanswered . overall and i be lose in this film . if you ever pick up this film and you see a blonde hair and blue eye 26 year old wandering through the scene and it be i just try to understand this film . i can not figure it out and i can understand most lynch and gilliam and and others of the jigsaw puzzle genre and but this be just beyond my control . the character seem drab and never fully comfortable in their role and and those that be jump between emotion like play leapfrog in kindergarten . the story be connect well and but it do not make any difference if the character ( the glue of the story ) do not hold them together . in your eye and and in your dvd player and you can see where this film just fall apart . if you be look for a strong emotional powerhouse film where character work with their character and push the envelope even far and i would check out paul thomas anderson magnolia . this film remind me of magnolia except bad . i do not suggest anyone waste their three hour on this film and but who be i except a lost guy in this film . again and if find and please return . grade represent out of .