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Good movie. Serious. I like it. And the scenario is very good. Music is super! i've downloaded soundtrack... By submitting this comment you are agreeing to the terms laid out in our Copyright Statement. Your submission must be your own original work. Your comments will normally be posted on the site within 2-3 business days. Comments that do not meet the guidelines will not be posted. Please write in English only. HTML or boards mark-up is not supported though paragraph breaks will be inserted if you leave a blank line between paragraph. By submitting this comment you are agreeing to the terms laid out in our Copyright Statement. Your submission must be your own original work. Your comments will normally be posted on the site within 2-3 business days. Comments that do not meet the guidelines will not be posted. Please write in English only. HTML or boards mark-up is not supported though paragraph breaks will be inserted if you leave a blank line between paragraph.

So-so drama about a relationship that goes bad(kind of). The movie starts with the divorce papers being signed and then goes backwards all the way to their first encounter together. This awkward style is actually pulled off pretty well by director and writer Francois Ozon but what's wrong with the movie is that you don't really understand why things started in the first place and why it ended the way it did. There are hints, but nothing is really spelled out. It's more a chronicle of what happened with very little detail on the why's. This might work if the viewer cared about the characters but Ozon does very little in the area of background with the people involved in the story. With no depth in the characters, it is a very flat experience for the viewer. I'm usually impressed with European films because of their focus on the characters but this one didn't do anything for me despite Ozon's critically-acclaimed background.

I'm a big fan of French director François Ozon, and every film he releases automatically becomes a must see for me. 5x2 is the story of a relationship told backwards in five stages, from the divorce proceedings to the initial meeting between a couple. Given the way that this story plays out, it's clear that 5x2 isn't exactly a romantic film; as we always know that the relationship is leading into oblivion. The main talking point of this movie is the fact that the story plays out backwards. This type of plot has been used with great success in films like Memento, but despite being seen before; Ozon makes good use of his plotting, and it provides a refreshing take on the common romantic film. There isn't really a plot to speak of, and the focus is kept on the central relationship between the husband and wife. This ensures that Ozon is allowed to develop his characters without being bogged down by plot details, and it ultimately benefits the film as it's potency all rests with the characters of Marion and Giles, both of which are played to perfection by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Stéphane Freiss.A film like this asks a lot of the performers, and as he's done several times before; Ozon ensures that both are up to the task, and he manages to pull great performances out of both the lead stars. The pair goes through a range of emotions, from happiness to hope and down to despair as the relationship falls apart. These days, it's more common for couples to split up; and this ensures that 5x2 is almost like Casablanca for the modern age. It's a very cynical film, but Ozon is not wrong in his depiction of a doomed relationship. The film is made more complicated by the inclusion of a child between the couple, but as each of the five sections of the film is relatively short in length, not everything is able to be explored and this is the film's main flaw. 5x2 is very French in its style and execution, and it's obvious that the director loves his home country. François Ozon is obviously gay (looking at the rest of his filmography), and even though this film is about a heterosexual relationship, the way that a gay couple is incorporated into the proceedings is very ham-fisted, and doesn't really fit. Still, this is a good film about the destruction of a relationship and overall, a success for the talented director.

It is worth seeing this film both forward and backward. It's interesting how it changes when you see the events "in order".*spoiler alert* When I first saw it, I was inclined to think that Gilles was a total ass and the cause of all the problems with the relation ship. After seeing it again, watching the scenes in backward order some points become clear that make some of his unforgivable actions less hateful.Clearly, he knows that Marion had an affair, and conceived from it. This is why he did not come the the hospital when she is giving birth, and why he left as soon as he see the baby.