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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I aspire to grow into an old cow like Tatie Danielle.

Urged by one of my friends, who revered it, I saw this movie when I was in my twenties. I must say that I disagree with his judgment as well as with all the previous reviews I have read on this site, except for a few external critics. Despite my youth, I hardly laughed at the wickedness, evil intentions and misdeeds of the movie's main character, and was grateful when the movie could pull out a sincere smile from me. Compared with other movies where an evil and passive aggressive personality tries to manipulate people around them, such as Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", or more recently, Lars von Trier's "Breaking the waves", just to name a few, this movie has a lot to learn. In addition, it lacks any aesthetic interest (photography, sound track, etc.). Finally, the scenes, situations and repetitive gags in this movie are tiresome, just as the old lady, whose psychology is as profound as the epidermis.

I can't think of how Holloywood would do a remake of the fine film of social manner "but" I hope they don't bother. The comedy never stops, Tatie Danielle is everyones favourite Aunt, we all love to hate her, and its not that difficult. One of my favourite scene is the bit when the "dog" gets dump in a Paris Street, (removing its collar, so that it can't be identified. The acting is very good. There are some very beautiful women in the film, including the young nurse in the hospital. The film is very French and one can learn a lot about the modern middle class in French today, just by looking at this film. Another plus, the film gets better with repeated viewing, and I have seen it about six or seven times already.

I have to say that I don't like this film. I love French films because I think they are more in depth, thought-provoking, and spend more time developing relationships between the characters. Unfortunately, Tatie Danielle is cruel and mean. She criticizes everybody but herself. She makes everybody else's life worse than hers by her actions. The way she treats people including the old woman who cared for her in the beginning of the film is exceptionally cruel when it causes her death. She moves in with unsuspecting relatives who have two young sons. One son is obviously homosexual but the parents either ignore it just turned a blind eye to it. Not Tatie Danielle! You can imagine what she has to say and do. Just look what she does to the family pet dog. Anyway, she finally meets her match in the caretaker assigned to her when the family takes a much-needed Greek vacation for a month. If only Americans could take month-long vacations, how I envy the French. Anyway, they get along until she has to leave her. Then Tatie Danielle gets famous for her poor treatment by getting national sympathy. When she's not in the old folks home after that incident, she is away with her caretaker somewhere. I don't know. I think Tatie's cruelty is just too much for me or anyone.