I expected a run of the mill story of an old guy falling for a young beauty blah blah blah …
but it wasn’t long before i realized this movie was FOUR HOURS LONG ! ! !
and ultimately it wasn’t about anything at all ! ! !
on one hand i respect this movie for being very un-Hollywood like …
on the other hand you should probably save this one for your retirement, because it is REALLY FUCKING LONG
and when i say it’s long i don’t mean that it’s boring but rather, you must completely give up on your own life before you can take FOUR HOURS to immerse yourself into the life of fictional characters like this …
so in conclusion i enjoyed this movie and i respect it, but i can’t recommend it due to how long it is …
i had no idea it was that long when i started watching …
it’s actually in two parts ( i think the first part was 2 hr 14 min or something like that ). so they probably intend for you to watch it over 2 days. i actually watched it over 3 days.
of course i’m joking when i say the movie wasn’t about anything at all. it was actually about many things, but oddly enough beauty or even love wasn’t really at the center of it even though all the women in the movie are beautiful but that’s just because it’s a French movie …
oh yeah, it’s in French - you have to read subtitles. but i actually prefer that in a language i can partially understand. makes it more interesting.
i thought this would be an Erotic movie with some European flair to it …
instead it’s a mostly serious French Indie film with an extra dose of sexiness …
just like in “The Beautiful Troublemaker” nothing much actually happens, just a very good looking girl that is naked a lot …
but whereas “The Beautiful Troublemaker” is 4 hours long and trying too hard “Young and Beautiful” is only 1.5 hours long and is overall better done.
i was experiencing technical difficulties ( very significant stuttering of video ) which i am frankly furious about so i wasn’t able to properly experience the movie emotionally, but intellectually i can say the quality of the film is very high.
i debated putting “Young and Beautiful” into “movies that were much better than i expected” thread but frankly my expectations were pretty high - it’s just that i expected it to be an erotic movie, and it turned out to be more like a drama but not overdone.
who can you watch this movie with ? well not your wife or kids and probably not your friends either. would be a good movie to watch with your GF probably. alone is fine too. or your GF may even watch it by herself without you LOL.
by the way i have reviewed another film from the same director here:
which had ZERO nudity …
while both movies are high quality i prefer my movies with sexy naked girls but i have to stress that this director is legit and doesn’t NEED nudity to make a film - but it is certainly welcome especially when the girl is young and thin ( and she can actually act as well ! )
and considering “Exotica” is the name of the strip club where most of the movie takes place, you would be forgiven for assuming this will be a hot erotic movie - but it is not.
in fact even though all the other strippers in the club are fully nude none of them are characters in the movie and the only one who is ( Christina / Mia Kirshner ) barely flashes a nipple here and there …
this movie is actually existentialist and it’s all about processing trauma and isn’t erotic at all
there are some sexually creepy vibes in the movie for sure but again - this is a serious movie - it is not masturbation fodder at all … and i wish it was
it’s a good movie but it isn’t hot, while the promotional material made you believe it would be, so while i am not disappointed in the film overall, i do feel a bit cheated … hence 3.5 stars.
it’s basically a bait and switch - they know nobody wants to watch a serious movie so they promise a lot of sex - and then you just get a serious movie instead, with some sexual tension but barely any skin - except for the gay stuff ( yes there is gay stuff, but the movie isn’t about homosexuality ).
this could have been 4.5 star movie if Kirshner’s routine / lap dance was actually hot - but even though she is good looking and has nice tits she can’t dance worth a shit and of course she barely takes any clothes off …
i also think i may have seen this on TV as a teen - but of course i could barely understand English then and watching movies on TV means you begin watching in the middle, all the hot scenes are cut out, there are commercials everywhere and you are also flipping though channels so for all intents and purposes i watched it for the first time tonight, even though i have seen it on TV before …
