Looking forward to J. Hoberman giving this a big thumbs up.

Looking forward to teenage girls starting dumpster fires after watching this film.

Kiarostami filming in Japan? FUCK YES!

Should have been a lot better than it was.

One of the most self-indulgent and empty films ever made. No exaggeration. Episodic, overwrought crap. Pretends to be mystically incomprehensible and profound but is nothing more than trite cliches. Poooop.

Is there a more bloated ending in the entire history of the cinema?

Don't ever trust a lesbian! Great adaptation of Proust and what an ending! Devastating.

Contains all of the cinema. One wonders if Kiarostami hasn't taken the medium as far as it can go.

Brilliant adaptation. The only way Proust could, or should, ever be filmed.

A disappointment. I don't feel like it coheres a film and for all its overt sentimentality, leaves the viewer cold. LA times critic Turan put it well, "it's a film you can admire but not embrace."

MY BODY WILL NEVER BE READY!

MY BODY IS NOT READY! MY BODY IS NOT READY!

Expected something beyond mediocre from this supposed "film critic" and "die-hard cinephile." Old woman talking about her impending death. *cue sappy harp music*

Nolan, like Cobb, loses himself in these shared dreams. Like a director for whom reality isn't enough, he must return to these fabricated dreams. If you can accept this premise, then the question becomes not "is this a dream or reality?" but can cinema truly affect people's lives or is that just a dream of the director's, who is incapable of coming to grips with reality.

The fanboys who love it don't get it, and the haters miss the mark entirely.The film is not about literal dreams. It's a film about filmmaking posed as a psychological heist film. Cobb is the film director, who assembles his 'heist' team, composed of a script-writer, producer, actor, etc, and he creates these shared dream experiences with the subject/audience while trying to plant a message into the audience's heads.

Best film about films since Mulholland Dr and a true heir, and dare I say, successor to 8 1/2. Cobb becomes Nolan, who dreams up the cinema only to get lost, perhaps permanently, within it. The ending forces us to question whether dreaming liberates us or restrains us or both. Brilliant film, haters gonna hate.

I wasn't "sold" on Ozu when I started the film, about half-way it "clicked," and by the end of the film I was holding back (manly) tears.

In light of the recent oil spill in the gulf, I have not been able to stop thinking of this film.

O_O

Directed at Kimberly: That's the beauty of the film, intentional or not? Fictional or not?

Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.

This film has done nothing for me, twice. That said, Bresson's worst is still very good.

Not as bad as people make it out to be, but then again it's not a masterpiece by any means. I believe it was intended to be predictable, hell, even the trailer gave it away and this is precisely why it works. I AM A DULY APPOINTED FEDERAL MARSHALL!

This film should be mandatory viewing for anyone between the ages of 14 and 20. I rarely see such a perfect harmony of content and form. About half way through the film I asked myself if it was possible for Van Sant to do Tarr better than Tarr. Take that as you will.

Ditto, Roger. Plus two other Costa's.

do want

Ew.

Now I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone, myself included. By does that picture not look like a young Alain Delon in drag?

So much beauty in this film.

Tyler, maybe you need to re-read this "incredible" book. But yes, this is classic McCarthy but my expectations are low for this film. : (