i be currently study proust and and so look forward to this . i figure the other review have to be wrong about how bad this be . but they weren not . i love slow and ponderous french movie . but this one absolutely kill me and bludgeon me with a big fat dull fence post and leave me by the side of one of the many long road i would watch the actor drive interminably and wordlessly down . i finally have to watch it on fast forward and because nothing happens time and time and time again for minute at a stretch . i do not envy a director or scriptwriter who take proust on and because so much of the richness of his character and story be interior . but and god . you have get to at least try to convey those depth by something other than static shot of actor do and say nothing . boo . hiss . just awful .