Unconventional and beautiful, but rather uninteresting

Rating: 7/10 (13 September 2012)

Of course, the director Mr Hazanavicius and most of actors (especially Ms Bejo, Mr Goodman, and the dog) have done excellent job, but the storyline is rather simple and predictable. Similar to most of European (incl. French) films, there is a lot of romance, feelings, moods etc, as well as profound variances such as routine vs innovation, pride vs humbleness, past vs future. But due to few text lines and long scenes, I was quite eager to use forward function and got the whole picture in about an hour.
The film is not bad, but 5 Academy Awards is slightly exaggerated, in my opinion (as most other nominees were state-of-the-art films as well). Critics have praised it a lot, but audience figures have been modest everywhere.