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Release Date
• USA: Jun 10, 2005
• UK: 30 Oct 2004
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong graphic sexuality, language and some drug content.
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country France
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Other Titles
• 5 x 2: Five Times Two
• Five Times Two
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Infidelity
Plot: Focusing on the failed relationship of a thirtysomething couple, French director Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL, UNDER THE SAND) organizes this film into five chapters they shared together. In backwards chronology, the first chapter of Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles's (Stephane Freiss) story has them signing divorce papers, and the last chapter shows the first sparks of romance between them years earlier. A master of controlling his audience's emotions, Ozon elicits vast sympathies for each character, making their relationship--and especially, the problems they cannot live with--more painful with each new detail revealed about Marion and Gilles. We see them alone in their darkest moments as they sit staring into space, smouldering with bitter helplessness at how the relationship is irreversibly wrong. And we see them love, and spar, and hurt each other in ways that seem unimaginable until the full picture is painted. It is this hurt that makes Marion, with her big, defeated, glassy blue eyes, unable to look at Gilles as they review the terms of their divorce. And it is this same hurt that culminates in Gilles raping Marion in a hotel room, brokenhearted and enraged at losing her love. How did this twosome wind up in such a miserable state? The remaining chapters--which
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The popular music in the film is nice. The mechanism of showing the scenes in reverse order is really the film's whole interest value, but it is becoming a timeworn gimmick and this is one of the least interesting films to use it. It goes back at least to the 1983 film BETRAYAL, written by Harold Pinter. 4/10--Mark R. Leeper
...in a sense 5x2 is a victim of its own success.--David Perilli
Intriguingly structured, impressively acted film that’s intelligent, moving and quietly devastating.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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