One lie, one truth, and a great movie!

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2006)

I have enjoyed this film very much, and I would have enjoyed it even more if I hadn't seen all the key scenes before in the trailer. Whoever invented this formula for trailers should go to hell  it is truly a torture for frequent movie goers. (Harry Potter suffers from the same disease).
The movie delivers two messages, one false, one true. The first is an American/therapeutic message: in order to live your life in full, you need only to decide it! Were it even that simple... The other  European?  is that you learn a a lot about life from narratives  your own and other people's. There is possibly a third one, intended for culture students: popular culture shapes lives as much as it represents it.
The movie offers a subtle, ingratiating humor, and, surprise surprise, it actually manages to produce a real suspense, spoiler-trailers notwithstanding!