Bird People 2014

     The synopsis of this film caught my attention.  It seemed like a weird but beautiful romantic movie about a man in crisis and a maid who helps him.  In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly tosses his job, breaks things off with his wife and holes up in his room.  Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.  It is a sweet movie but slow moving.  The film is 1/2 English & 1/2 French subtitles.  The first half of movie is trivial and too descriptive of everyday people's thoughts and mundane living.  Boring!  The second half is a bit fantasy and sort of kind of sweet.  It's often basically boring?  There is nature study of all forms of life from birds, bugs, animals to humans.  Not really a fantasy or fairy tale, not a real love story either.  Possibly just an acquaintance story?

      Twenty minutes of random and unnecessary footage.  Still, in it's portrayal of characters who are not perfect it manages to show beauty and good in life in a weird way.  It's a slow movie where things of little to no significance happen, but it's all worth for the last 3 minutes.  If you get that and what it means, you will like this movie. It isn't perfect.  It isn't for everybody.  It tries too much to be artistic but fails.  I still liked it and recommend it, at least for one watch but not a repeat.  3* (This movie is OK)

127 min, Drama directed and written by Pascale Ferran and also written by Guillaume Bread with Josh Charles, Anais Dmoustier, Roschdy Zem, Taklyt Vongdara, Geoffrey Cantor, Camelia Jordana,Radha Mitchell, Mohand Saci, Ali Ben Amar, Corallie Majouga, Sonia Bouquet, Aurore Sooudieux, Khalil Yahya.

Note:  Imdb 6.1* out of 10* with 1919 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 60% with 35 critic reviews 40% with 150+ audience scores, Roger Ebert 2*, Amazon 48 out of 5* with 42 ratings, Letterboxd 3.3* out of 5*, Metacritic 70 out of 100 with 12 critic reviews, 7.1 out of 10 user scores, IndieWire Oliver Lyttelton Grade C.