karlericsson Review of I've Loved You So Long

I've Loved You So Long (2008)

Hysteria! The kind of stuff that so nauseated Celine.

[3/10 · 3 March 2009]

Celine wrote that he was disgusted about the bourgeoisie, who could weep over some sentimental nonsense in a cinema and never fail to turn their back on real misery. This movie brings Celine's writing to mind. Here we have somebody so taken up by herself that she lets near ones and dear ones believe that she is a child murderer for no good reason, which probably brings her dad to an early death and makes her mother insane. All this because she cannot take her sorrow and instead plunges into a life where she is hated in order to bring her thoughts on something else. It's so dumb, that it just isn't believable. To take a rap of 15 years in prison as self-inflicted punishment, takes a saint and a saint does not let her parents suffer in vain. You cannot have the cake and eat it as well, as the script-writers of this c-p seem to think. The performance of the lead actress is nevertheless so outstanding, that you almost buy it. What a waste!