A good movie

To be honest, I wasn't really sure what to expect from this flick but I was so intrigued by its story so I really wanted to check it out at some point. Basically, I was around the same age as Brian was when I met my wife and she was around the same age as Arielle. On top of that, she was married at the time with someone else, with 2 kids, and I'm French while she is Dutch. And I almost forgot to mention that she did some modelling at some point. So, obviously, many things that happened in this movie felt really familiar and it did touch me enormously because it basically mirrored a huge chunk of my life. A part from that it was a decent romantic-comedy but, to be honest, I thought there was actually not much chemistry between Anton Yelchin and Bérénice Marlohe. I mean, it was completely understandable that he would fall head over heels for her, who wouldn't? But the late Yelchin, who was always a sweet and charming actor, delivered his usual confused and clueless loser act and, to be honest, it seemed that this beautiful woman was way out of his league. I mean, she kept saying that he was amazing and irresistible but I was never convinced. Eventually, I would have kept Marlohe but get another young actor, someone I truly believed who could sweep away such a gorgeous MILF. Seriously, through the whole movie, Yelchin acted as if he couldn't believe that someone like her could be interested at all in someone like him. Well, frankly, I shared the same feeling and the movie never managed to convince me that I was watching anything else than a fleeting meaningless love affair. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, for some obvious personal reasons, this movie really touched me and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10