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To me, this movie is perfection.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Claude Lelouch's "And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen" ... (2002) tries to be a lot of things. It has the elements of romance, thriller, and drama and much more. It could be called "Another Man and Another Woman 36 years later" and it takes us to London, Paris, and Morocco. A successful and creative jewel thief Valentin (Jeremy Irons) sails alone around the world. The fate brings him to Morocco where he meets a night singer Jean (Patricia Kaas) who hopes to escape from the heartache of the failed affair. They both suffer from blackouts and amnesia that may be caused by brain tumors - of course, they were meant to meet. They will seek the way to save their lives and then change them.The movie is beautiful to look at, and the songs that Patricia Kaas sings are wonderful, the best asset of the movie. I read that Kaas's album "Piano Bar", a hand-picked collection of the popular love songs inspired Lelouch to make this movie where Kaas debuted as an actress. I've heard her singing before and I like her a lot. I also think that her screen debut was successful. Her songs kept the movie together because there were too many stories intermingling and even though they were all interesting and compelling, it was not just easy to keep track of all them.There was one bitter-sweet moment when I realized that the actress who played a countess in Morocco's hotel and whose jewels were stolen in a very manner Valentin would do, was Claudia Cardinale, yes, The Claudia Cardinale. She is still a beautiful woman but the first thought that came to my mind was, "What does time do to all of us?""And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen" was fun while it lasted. I don't think I'll want to see it again any time soon but I am going to order Patricia Kaas's CD and I'll be listening to it often.

I love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jeremy Irons & Patricia Kaas are wonderful!!!the story is really beautiful,2people who have the same "illness",they meet,and it's the beginning of love!!the sets and the music are wonderful!And I love when Jeremy Irons speak french,with his English accent,he's so beautiful!!He is a perfect gentlemen,he has "class",an elegance typically English!the apparition of Jean-Marie Bigard in a doctor is funny!!!This film is excellent,and I want to congratulate Claude Lelouch for the production,his films are still great!!especially when Jeremy Irons is in the cast!!and I love when Patricia Kaas sing in the film,I really like her voice!It make something romantic....

It's just too bad that LeLouch is still best known in the USA for A Man and a Woman, because he's made so many fascinating films barely known in the English speaking world. This film embodies his ongoing fascination with narrative, with contorting plot strands and time and audience expectations in delightfully clever and tricky ways. (As an apostle of the pure joy of gaming a story, he seems to be a disciple of Sascha Guitry.) But that works best in the first part of the movie, when we're being introduced to the two main characters via a marvelous series of interwoven scenes in fragmented time. When the two amnesiacs are brought together in Fez, we suddenly have a much more conventional film about a robbery which may or may not have been committed by Irons, who -- if he committed it -- may or may not remember it. A subplot about a boxer and his wife is awkwardly inserted in this part of the film. It's a long movie, and feels long, but if only for the first hour or so it should be seen -- and the more conventional parts of the movie are certainly not without their charms. The locations are beautifully photographed and the leads are charismatic. But try and catch And Now My Love, or Edith and Marcel, or La Belle Histoire or Viva la vie! for better sustained and more successful examples of LeLouch's inimitable stamp. Thierry Lhermitte and Claudia Cardinale are nice to have on hand, but their star quality is not really necessary for the parts they're given.

Too many sub-plots and, therefore, too many characters, diffuse the focus on the two protagonists, whose relationship lacks the chemistry Lelouch created for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee in his classic A MAN AND A WOMAN.The movie also suffers from a running time that should have been 20 minutes shorter. Worth seeing, though.