I Love You, I Love You Not

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Summary: cool Danes in the not-so-cool teen movie
Review: The story plot would sound very familiar to most of us: a somewhat misfit of a sensitive young girl having a crush on the coolest guy at school. One day, miraclously, this guy announced that HE is in love with her, too. Guy and girl dated. Guy and girl had differences. Guy and girl broke up. Girl reconciled herself with her losses. Guy and girl brighten up, respectively. The only saving grace of this movie is the brillant performance of Ms Danes, who somehow managed to make the trodden-million-times-before rountine of the angsted teenager feel refreshing and somehow closer to reality than otherwise would have been the case with other actresses/actors. The relationship between Claire and her greadmother( the one in the movie, of course) is also touching. Their Jewish heritages brought them painful memories, which still continue to affect the new generation through no fault of their own. It is very sad to see the victims of a very cruel and meaningless war having to suffer long after the war was ended. Nevertheless, the director could have done a better job of interaging these two main themes together. Overalledly, it is okay though. END

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Summary: A STORY WHICH COULD BE TOLD BETTER
Review: This film had very little point to it. Claire Danes, Jude Law and Jeanne Moreau were all excellent in their roles, but there did not seem to be a plot. Danes plays the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor (Moreau). She is very sensitive, poetic, and dramatic. She has a lot of dreams/nightmares about the concentration camps. Jude Law's character gets involved with her, but he cannot be trusted. He seems to like to spend time with her, but he is being pulled between her sensitivity and her being "different" from everyone else and his popular friends. Age old story (see Pretty in Pink, for example, although that story is more socioeconomic). When Danes confides in Law about her grandmother's past, she starts receiving anti-Semitic notes in her locker. However, these events are unresolved and pointless. Her relationship with Law is never really "resolved". They just do not see each other anymore. He does not talk to her anymore. She just longs to go back to her grandmother's house because she seems to hate her inattentive parents. But her grandmother, luckily, provides her with a safety she finds nowhere else.

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Summary: Too many complex issues raised, but none solved/resolved
Review: This is a nice, warm film about a teenage girl, who seems to have many problems, in addition to the usual teenage stuff. The film's flaw is that it raises loads of exceptionally complex issues (first love, peer pressure, parental neglect, dark family history, dysfuntion in modern familes, etc.), trying to resolve them all at once. As a result, it resolves none of those issues. It leaves its viewers wondering about whether they should take this film as a heart-warming teenage melodrama, pshychosoial study of teenagers or holocaust drama. So, the film loses its enertaiment value, while viewers are looking for the answer(s). And good feature films can't afford to do that, no matter how serious and deep their subject matter is.

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Summary: Breath taking performance and movie
Review: This is my favorite movie, this is the first movie i ever saw with jude law but since i have seen others and this is one of his best performances. And i think this is Claire Danes best performance very emotional and touching. I recommend this movie especially to teens but also to any age group.

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Summary: Excellent movie, with excellent actress!
Review: This movie may be slow moving, but every second is worth it!Claire Danes brings you slightly back in time, yet keeping up todate. The story is basically about young love and the girl in love, Danes, being the grand-daughter of a special grandmother in her life that was a surviver from the holocost war. Daisy(Danes) feels all the emotions of her grandmother and therefore, acts upon many of those emotions that end up in almost a deathly event, hurt feelings, and love. The movie may be slow moving, but Cyndi Lauper spices it up with "I Drove All Night" in the mirror scene that i can't give away to viewers so they buy this film! I had many choices to give star ratings, unfortunately, i couldn't go above 5 stars. I would rate this infinite stars(forever). Now rush to the shopping cart, read other reviews first, and experience every emotion possible,even ones you did not know you posess!

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Summary: A great movie that explains the struggles of teenage life.
Review: This movie was soooo good!!! I loved it.. The acting is great and the actors (Jude Law, James Van Der Beek) are very good looking :) I could totally relate to the issues this girl goes through. It covers everything from the Holocaust that the girls grandmother went through and the troubles w/boys as a teenager. It will make you cry, make you laugh, and make you go eeek because some things are just so embarassing. I loved it! I would definitly recommend this to a younger crowd though.

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Summary: Great for teachers. Overwhelmed by past, teen looks 4 self.
Review: This would be an excellent DVD for teachers or for discussion with a young people's group, christian, Jewish or any faith about how disturbing it can be to deal with the past. In this case, Claire Danes is a young woman plagued with visions about her grandmothr's past as a holocaust survivor and how the stories her grandmother tells her parallel her own life. Not telling anyone even her grandmother of the disturbing line she is walking between feeling mad and sane because of her imagination and desire which she doesn't know how to deal with, the edgeyness of the performances continues to a worthy climax as we learn more.
Her parents are away on a vacation and have left her with her grandmother who is an accepting, loving person, who helps her accept her identity. One great scene, is when Danes, opens to her grandmother and begins to trust another human beng, by revealing what she thinks about sex. Jude Law is okay in his role, but the two women, Claire Danes and Jeanne Moreau, really stand out in this one. Sometimes I wonder if Claire was reading lots of Sylvia Plath for inspiration for at times the movie feels like an untold part of Plath's biography, a missing link, as it were, though it is not at all intended that way. Some of the scenes may not have the smoothest transition. Perhaps the director didn't quite know what was to be done with Jude Law's character, whether to make him a caring human baing or a shallow person who acts as though he has no problems of his own, but perhaps that's part of being a teenager.
It was superb, however in the parallel in the heroine's mind between her life and grandmother's. I gave it five stars for the climax when heroine faces the angel of death and the acting by two female leads. Good as a suspense/romance film, as well.