So...Different.It Confuses One But It Actually Has Meaning To It.Teaches Some Lessons.A Perspective On Life.I Found It Beautiful.I Loved Francis Fortescue's Character.

Outstanding. And surprising because I'd never heard of it. Saw it at a Merchant-Ivory retrospective at Sterling Cinema in Bombay. It's stayed with me

point one : kris kristofferson.
point two : emotional - the movie doesn't TELL you what to feel, but it shows you situations, and the ending scene is just brilliant.

The film is as unkempt as a diary, with people's motivations obscure, many of their problems left unresolved and friends and acquaintances appearing and disappearing with a near-pinball like randomness. But that is much of the charm of this film, as ... (read more) The film is as unkempt as a diary, with people's motivations obscure, many of their problems left unresolved and friends and acquaintances appearing and disappearing with a near-pinball like randomness. But that is much of the charm of this film, as its honest portrait of a family in transition and crisis is full of the sort of tumult and confusion that most of us can identify with.

Weird coming of age movie set mostly in Paris. Not particularly enlightening or entertaining.

Brilliant cast, great drama. Leelee Sobieski should've kept doing films like this.