in short represent this be a very arrogant and unsuccessful attempt to be another jean luc godard and ingmar bergman and or hector babenco . this movie be terrible . and and i do not dislike this movie solely because of the rampant anti americanism . i also dislike this movie on it movie quality . let start with act . tom riley a david be so completely ridiculous in his role . here be a young man who go to paris to meet his father and be confront by two people he doesn not know and have two gun draw at him ready to fire and be subsequently tell his father have a secret family in france and sara forestier ( orlando ) be his half sister he never know about . he see a dead body and dripping of fresh blood and of the concierge while exit the paris hotel and and be now in fear for his life . or he should be . how many 25 30 year old ( i be guess that the character age bracket ) have see a murder body and especially in his demographic a a middle class white male . i mean how many of u have see a murder body ever . or have have load gun in our face . or tell about their dear father second secret family that you never know about . and this all happen within hour . but how do riley david react . like he step out of a shampoo commercial he cook fine cuisine and make joke about cell phone and want to visit the eiffel tower . either amigorena think american character can not practice deep retrospection and emotion or riley be really one of the most horrible movie actor i have see in a while . the direction . . . so self indulgent . so look at me . so i can be so deep . it really be pathetic . the most pathetic and self indulgent scene be one of the last where juliette binoche and john turturro or irene montan and william pound have the last gun fight . in slow motion with the sound turn off and the camera pan outside where we only see blast of light every second and a half . give me a break . that be such a ridiculous scene that the other people in the theater be laugh out loud . the writing . . . be this a caper film . be this a spy film . or be this a french romance . the brother and sister ( well sort of ) begin a romantic interlude because deep film have love scene right . this guy be so deeped out and man . such a ridiculous attempt to be good than anything ever film . such arrogance in his film making . there be one part of the film which have humor and kind of work . after turturro ( pound ) would kill someone or come close he would immediately get his psychiatrist on the phone . that be a little funny and and possibly more should have be do with this area .