Perfect Sense

Ewan McGregor et Eva Green dans un film romantique et de science-fiction non conventionnel qui a son charme particulier. Et même s’il est vraiment bizarre par moments, il caresse l’âme. Après mon visionnage récent de L’Agence, il est évident à mes yeux que le genre « science-fiction romantique » a beaucoup à offrir et donne l’occasion rêvée aux scénaristes et réalisateurs de regagner jusqu’au spectateur le plus blasé. (03/08/2012)

Version plus philosophique et production plus modeste que le Contagion de Soderbergh. Mais, à part la beauté du final, c’est tout aussi froid et contenu, ce qui est plutôt un choix malheureux pour un film qui se focalise avant tout sur les deux personnages centraux – et leur relation. (06/02/2012)

Remember One by Metallica? What if all people ended up like that? A great idea to depict a relationship beginning in a world slowly heading towards collapse where people entertain the false hope that things will get better. Both Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are great, even though they eat soap. The only thing that bothered me is that the movie wasn’t devoted only to those two (documentary shots from around the world), or that they didn’t show several stories taking place in various places around the planet. (16/01/2012)

The person who wrote the official distributor’s text must have lost all his senses (including his sixth sense), but mainly his common sense. Or else deep down he must really hate this movie. Which is equally as unlikely as someone sincerely loving Perfect Sense; originality and form are pushed too much at the expense of everything else for somebody to love this. It is more interesting (and has too many loose ends) than actually good; but luckily it is interesting in just the right way. (10/03/2012)

A perfect premise, no doubt. The director of Spread has made a surprisingly ambitious romantic drama with a global catastrophe as a backdrop. The result is quite impressive, but it could have been even more so if the relationship between the two protagonists worked better – I just didn’t feel any bond between McGregor and Green. The apocalyptic line works much better and it was the most enjoyable thing in Perfect Sense. What’s a stumbling block, though, is that the creators want to express way too many things in these two lines (from personal relationships, through the human nature, all the way to our relationship with our planet) and I couldn’t catch the central motif, if there was any to begin with. The resulting impression is as if someone had optimistically told me that I still have one year of a happy life left… 7/10 (15/01/2012)