I wanted to like this more than I did but there are many faults...Michael Caine is always promising, and although he gave a good performance here, he is using an American accent, which stood out like a sore thumb! His performance is pretty good nonetheless, (it's Michael Caine) but he doesn't have the best script to begin with either..Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy should be a dream working together but they're relationship is not interesting enough to hold out the 2 hour mark... (and then the last half hour goes a bit askew as well). I never felt enough for these characters to invest in them or root for them and I think that is the films biggest failing..Although the movie had all the ingredients, I was checking the time quite a bit.. The movie had some charm but I was bored by its slow pacing...Seek it out if you cant get enough of Michael Caine or Clémence Poésy, but otherwise I wouldn't be in a hurry...

It starts... wonderfully - Michael Caine with his usual magnetic pull,the female lead looking perfect for her character. It all seems to be heading in the right direction until... they talk. Michael Caine's character should have been simply - a British character. His accent is far to thick and too distinctive to be covered-over by any other accent. Throughout the film Michael isn't sure if he is an American or a Brit and and one point goes to Texas and back. The man is a legend, surely when filming him at the time, the director and screenplay writer (same person) should have been frowning at herself for making this icon of the screen take us on a world tour of English, ruining his amazing facial and body movements. A quick rewrite as a Brit, the character would have been perfect. Now... as for the female lead. Where to begin? Her accent is even more country-less. Is she French, English, American or even oddly Scots/Irish? I could hear all of these accents at some point in the film. Again, is the director deaf or just reading her script without actually hearing it? To set a film in such a prominent location as Paris, characters need to be absolutely established as to who they are and where they come from. The main female character is apparently French but she speaks 80% of the time with a British accent. You could argue the character **spoiler** has a father that was British and maybe she had grown up there? No... Michael Caine's character often corrects her English - so we have a girl with an English accent that can't actually speak basic English?? It turned me off. I am a voice artist/impressionist, anyone like me that is annoyed by bad accents, avoid this film. ;-) On to the overall plot: It gets messy. Other characters simply get in the way of the main purpose of the story. Gillian Anderson appears like she's in a flash-back to the X-Files... Serving no purpose in the room or as a character, talking, blah blah then a few serious looks is gone as soon as she arrived.Generally, Michael Caine was too big for this film to handle. As another reviewer says: "Soap Opera" - I wholeheartedly agree. This could have been far, far better. The ending is irritating and does not conclude the characters in a satisfactory way at all.Disappointed.

Review: This is a sweat movie about a elderly man who can't find the will to live after the death of his wife. After deciding to live in Paris, he befriends a young French girl who brings a little joy to his life but he can't fight the depression from loosing his wife. Although I found the storyline touching, I did get bored after a while because the pace of the movie is really slow and it's nearly 2 hours long. You do get to see Michael Caine in a different light and he does bring a lot of emotion to his role, but I found myself waiting for something to happen. The chemistry between Caine and Poesy was quite good, but the director didn't have to make it so long. In all, I did find the film to be a little depressing, but the acting is great and it was funny to see Caine trying to dance. Average!Round-Up: Michael Caine seems to be taking a lot of independent roles lately, which isn't surprising after starring in big blockbusters like the Batman movies, Now You See Me and putting his voice to the Cars 2. He always pulls out great performances, no matter what the budget is, which is why he will always be classed as one of the best in his field. Clemence Poesy has also starred in some big movies which range from the Harry Potter franchise to 127 Hours and In Bruges so she isn't a newcomer. I liked her sweat and innocent approach to her role which really worked in this movie, especially alongside Caine's character. Anyway, the movie does drag after a while but the subject matter is touching.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $2millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there touching dramas about a elderly man fighting depression after he looses his wife to cancer. 4/10

For some reason, Michael Caine was chosen to play an American old man living in France. He is devastated by the death of his wife and can't cope with it. He contemplates suicide when he meets an interesting and very young French girl who breathes some life in his routine driven drab excuse for an existence. He tries to commit suicide and fails, making his son and daughter to come visiting. The French girl wants to fix everyone's problems, including her daddy and family issues.Up to this point, the actors were well fleshed out, the acting good and the mood, even if boring sometimes, was interesting, feeling like something one might learn from. But towards the end Caine's character becomes more and more erratic. Far from a lovable old man and a great father, the script is trying to force him to become one with the other characters inexplicably making huge efforts to fix him. The ending is inexplicable as well, mostly because after all that effort, it seems really wasteful.Clémence Poésy is very cute, even Harry Potter thought so, and Michael Caine remains a good actor, even if he didn't seem at all the right choice for this role. And I believe this is the part where the movie fails completely: the casting. Caine as an American, with his clearly British accent and his demeanor, I am sad to say, that of an angry bully, not a sad old man as the role demanded, was a horrible choice. I can applaud Justin Kirk trying to not play a funny guy anymore, but you do that in a movie where everybody else is well cast. As such, he was also a weird choice. And Gillian Anderson playing very well her role, I think it was actually right for her, but her character has a few scenes and then goes away.Bottom line: the ending and the casting make this film a failure, in my mind. Besides a few well acted emotional scenes that brought tears to my eyes and some others that seemed like they are going to teach me something about human nature, it turned out to be a bore. Also, the script seemed written somewhere in the past. No one used a cell phone? Really?!