i do not know very much about french cinema . i know i like quite alot of the movie i see from there and but for all i know they make garbage ( like everywhere and everyone else ) and send only the good one to the usa . i mention this only because it seem a though this movie make it here on star power alone . i love binoche very much and since she doesn not exactly make six movie a year and i be glad when i can see her at all . when the actor you really love make a movie and you see it . daniel day lewis fall into that category for me and too . ever since the english patient and her unexpected but deserved oscar and i have be mildly obsessed w or her . so while i be glad i saw it and it far beneath her ability and talent and and ditto jean reno . it doesn not help that the setting be an airport lounge ( at least in that other airport lounge movie and the v. i. p. and you have margaret rutherford and her pill pop to enjoy ) and a hotel room and and that it . they just talk talk talk talk talk and none of it be even remotely interesting . negative .