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01/02/2014 A little movie about a bunch of young people involved into robberies. The story is nicely done but the cast insn't entirely convincing.... can do better. See more Grant S @grantss 06/19/2013 Kind of pointless. Just drifted around pretentiously with nothing profound to say. Which describes most French films I guess, except in this one nobody randomly commits suicide at the end. Only positive thing about the movie is Isild Le Besco, though her acting is poor... See more 01/19/2013 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Interesting and well-acted. See more 04/13/2011 Oppressively French. Old-school French. Boring comatose French. See more 06/27/2010 It's sad when young adults make terrible mistakes for romantic reasons that changes their lives. As a 19-year-old woman, Isild Le Besco actually looks older and is not quite the gorgeous "knockout" to get viewers glued to the screen. I kept on seeing a young Sissy Spacek as ideal in this role. Also, Ouassini Embarek as the criminal "Romeo" is too bland--you don't really care if he gets caught. The supporting characters in the background are much more interesting. I loved the travelogue scenes in Morocco and Athens. Although they really don't lend to the theme of a teenager growing up since the same realizations could be found in Paris. The black-and-white photography is exquisite and makes me nostagic for some of those 50s melodramas. See more 05/28/2010 Starts out and mostly finishes as a typical French disaffectation piece - a bored young woman with a well-off family runs away to find herself - but creates an interesting subversion by making her self-discovery really suck. Running away with her fugitive boyfriend initially seems like it'll be a grand adventure, but things go very quickly sour and the experience presents very few positive aspects for our poor nameless heroine. The narrative is pretty interesting, but its delivery feels stilted and ineffective. There's only so many times characters can refuse to introduce themselves or pause for half-minutes at a time before you realize the movie is mostly hot air. Things in Right Now feel organic in that "life imitates art" way, and the little glimpses we get at the main character before her escape indicate that she's a dissatisfied romantic who WOULD follow some sparkly bit of false hope out of a safe existence; unfortunately, the careful crafting of the situation is betrayed by the movie's peculiar interactions. Isild Le Besco is a different leading lady, peculiar-looking and not super expressive. I constantly felt that she wasn't quite right as I watched the movie, and perhaps it was the movie's intention that it never really let me into how she was feeling or what she was thinking, but I would have preferred a slightly less obtuse actress. Her lack of emotional signposting makes some of the sexual scenes especially bizarre. Pretty interesting, well worth the time, but you're better off watching Breathless. See more Read all reviews

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