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Plot Summary
Prep school English teacher Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) meets his match in Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche)—an abstract painter, and the new art teacher on campus. He challenges her to a lively philosophical debate of the impact of words vs. pictures and, in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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42%- Reviews Counted: 85
- Fresh: 36
- Rotten: 49
- Average Rating: 5.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A love story that actually has something on its mind beyond romance.
Rotten: That the couple have any charm is thanks to Owen and Binoche. In fact, it is hard not to hope that they'll get another chance at romance some day - the actors, that is.
Rotten: Shoots for vintage screwball and misses for lack of wit.
Fresh: With remarkable ease, director Fred Schepisi delivers a literate, grown-up comedy in the forgotten tradition of George Cukor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Customer Reviews
Lovely, touching, intelligent, funny.... watch it!
One of the best romantic, intelligent, inspiring movies in a long time.. Juliette Binoche is always wonderful and Clive Owen plays his role extremely well... very emotional... i was impressed. Loved it!
i loved this movie
it is a lovely romantic movie.....
The irony of this picture featuring words…...
First, I’d like to say I love a good rom/com. But in order for it to be good, the writer has to connect the dots believably to construct (in order) the plot, the characters and then their actions in creating the romance. This script skipped all sorts of the things required on all accounts and seldom resembled any sort of believable psychology and motivations on the characters’ parts. The premises presented were mostly hanging by the thinnest of threads and you had to take the writer’s word for far too much that didn’t resemble circumstances and consequences in the real world, in the least! As a 30 year veteran casting director, I regularly have to read scripts and give notes on them. Even more so, I’ve had great difficultly on occasions getting good, name actors to commit to far better scripts than this one. As such, I’m really astounded that Clive Owen and Juliet Binoche and their agents didn’t see the tremendous holes in what should have just been a bad TV movie on Lifetime and skipped this whole mess. Anyway, I’m really not trying to sound elitist here. But I’ll never get those two hours back and I wrote this so that you don’t find yourself in the same position….
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