it sound like a soppy idea represent that we meet the people we love time and again through the age . but it work for over three hour . la belle histoire switch between judea 2000 year back ( yep and the time and place of christ ) and the present day . we meet the same group of people then and now and with grand passion and bullfighting and gipsy king throw into the mix . be a french movie and there a lot of pretty people here . and religious or christian metaphor . this could have become a messy stew instead and it a very entertaining epic for the romanticist among u . too bad it so hard to get hold of .