Amazing acting, beautiful scenery and photography, but really nothing worth a movie. Turns Coco into a sad, weird woman who spent her life pining after lost love. Tries hard to show us where her early fashion inspiration came from, but doesn't really succeed. Very bland, slow moving. Too bad. Could have been a wonderful subject for a movie--an inspirational one, not one that focuses entirely on her feelings and long rides in carts, buggies, and cars. Too bad!
After leaving this movie, my friend said he felt it was like an amazing symphony, with many layers, emotions, questions, beauty, fear, ugliness and more. I couldn't have said it better. The evocation of the family is so dead right I thought I was seeing my French family...Well worth the time (it is a bit long) if you enjoy a truly French experience. The person who reviewed this and didn't like it, clearly isn't comfortable with French existentialism.