In most films I go to see the people never laugh about the same scenes as me. And it really annoys me when they laugh about some shitty slapstick or word play and don't laugh when I find something funny. Yesterday in François Ozon's 5x2 it was different. People did hardly laugh at all. And there were quite a lot of funny scenes. Like when her parents are with her at the hospital after she has given birth to her son. And her mother says to her that her father wasn't at the hospital neither when she had a miscarriage. And then the grandparents start to argue loudly. This is funny because this is life.

I love that the women are always the stronger sex in Ozon's films. It was the same in Truffaut's movies.

I fell in love with Géraldine Pailhas who is playing his girl-friend before he met his future wife like I fell in love with Fanny Ardant 25 years ago.

The soundtrack with Italian singers like Paolo Conte is phantastic. There couldn't be a greater contrast than between the schmaltzy music and their totally fucked up relationship solely focussed on sex without any romance. From a moral perspective they agree though. The music and the relation are totally false.

The film seems to get better the longer ago it dates back and the longer I think about it. When leaving the cinema I thought it was an exaggerated film about the disillusionment in certain relations between men and women. Now I don't really think about the film as depicting reality anymore but more about the scenes itself. For example the last one (within their relation the first) where the two of them swim into the ocean towards the setting sun. This is the kitschy beginning of their doomed relationship. Someone who didn't appreciate the film wrote that he would have liked them to drown in this scene to make the whole film story undone. I think that they did drown in this scene. But the drowning took several years up till the divorce. It was painful to watch but it was fascinating at the same time.

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