totally predictable plot ( although the final few frame be nicely do ) and unbelievably banal dialog cap by mcdormand soliloquy to her son how such a great actress agree to deliver such tripe be beyond me this movie just fail . i can not understand the favorable review . opera fan will understand if i say that the plot be less creative and more believable and and more boring than cosi fan tutte and and without the mozart music there be really no reason at all to sit through this flic . and what with the suppose to be sexy shot of the alex character who make love and go skinny dip without remove her top . what great auteur figure that one out . suppose to show the prudishness of the character who tell her lover f me . va savoir .