Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Clevercell Very disappointing...

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

riefenstein001 Interesting setup of the story. Good photography, actors are all doing their job, fine. Fine tuning of moments, good observation, though sometimes overtold, resting too much in moments, slowing down, while audience understood already. It is somewhat courageous, I guess, to take on that theme that easily could drift into a different sort of film. Kudos for that. The story of the stock shares/financial heritage problems, plus the dramatic health problem of the lead character is unnecessary in my opinion. The storyteller could have trusted in the "coming of age" of a middle aged woman in a bourgeois environment (stepford wife) , but okay, they went for drama. One thing that is just very distracting, if not disturbing, is the overlaying music which gives it a touch of a , well, Hallmark movie. (maybe it was intended , then nobody wanted anything different, please excuse the remark). A very big compliment to filmmaker for the taste of the scenery and even more to the talent to open up so much for a very touching and realistic love making scene. Thanks for sharing these moments Barbara Niven.

beautyboyjake I am new to the work of Nicole Conn. A Perfect Ending is a beautifully crafted piece of work, and I got completely engrossed and enveloped into the story from the outset.The two leading actors, Barbara Niven and Jessica Parker, gave exemplary performances, and were completely convincing in their portrayal of Rebecca and Paris, respectively. The whole feel of the film was beautiful, atmospheric, and crafted in such a touching and realistic way.I live in the UK and haven't seen much of Barbara Niven's work; however, she is a really beautiful and talented actress, and the part of Rebecca was brought to life by her brilliant acting and interpretation of the part of Rebecca. There is also a big age difference between her and Jessica Clark (some 30 years!), but that goes completely by the board when you see them together. Every time they were on the screen together, there was a palpable chemistry between them; making the whole thing very believable and gorgeous to watch.It certainly gets a big thumbs up from me.

crussell444 This was the most genuine portrayal of lesbian love and passion that I ever recall viewing. Fear of same sex relationships remains a problem of early socialization in our society to this day. In spite of celebrated people "coming out", gay marriage and famous transsexuals,internalized and externalized homophobia remains to a great extent in America. This is a realistic story of two straight women, one woman overcoming her fears and another falling in love with a woman after the loss of her male fiancé, falling in love. The timing of the development of their relationship is absolutely genuine. There is a fair amount of sex in this movie, but there is also a demonstration of gentle caring, affection, compassion and love. While their relationship starts as a business transaction over time it begins to subtly change and build into a real loving relationship. The characters are two women, but could easily have been two men or a man and a woman. What it did for me was convincingly illustrate how a lesbian relationship is not different from any other loving relationship. It was refreshing to see two women in love depicted as being in love instead of "in lust". This is something that seems not to be portrayed as clearly in other LGBT films. The ending was not a surprise until the daughter showed up at the art gallery. The interaction between her and her mother's lover was the icing on the cake. The only thing that I found a little distressing was that the sons did not seem appropriately saddened by the loss of their mother. This is a great film that I would recommend wholeheartedly to anyone not looking for an action flick.

azcoppen Just like the protagonist, watching this film for me was an act of experimentation in a genre i'm not particularly familiar with (LGBT). The reviews describe it as a stunning masterpiece of cinema, but i felt compelled to comment simply to redress the balance.TL;DR: this is a sales pitch for the lesbian lifestyle - targeted at the US middle class - attempting to masquerade as a "deep" film.The pretentiousness and disingenuousness are what stand out the most, but simply the most frustrating point of the whole two hours is that it's misses an incredible opportunity to examine the powerful and interesting issues it so nearly touches on: female sexual dysfunction, the moral ambiguity of prostitution, the awkward navigation of sexual fantasy, the family dynamics of terminal diagnosis, and more. It scrapes the 0.1% sludge off a barrel ten miles deep.This is what it *could* have been, if it weren't such a blatant and craven agenda-driven Trojan horse. It doesn't touch on any of these.The message: being a lesbian is awesome, and you should try it if you're a middle class white housewife. It's the solution of all of a woman's problems, and the only route to true and safe sexual experience, which will ultimately heal you from your emotional repression (see the name of the film). Fulfilling your sexual fantasies is a way to cope with your cancer diagnosis, whilst being surrounded by all the terribly abusive masculine influences in your life you never cared about anyway.How do you know it's a sales pitch? Sales only emphasises one side of an equation: the "beneficial" one the salesperson wants you to buy. Journalistic or cinematic integrity demands both sides are examined. There is no downside to the character's choices.Aside from the horrendous cliché around every corner (straight girl's OMG lesbian besties!, sexually abusive stepfather, noble 2nd career escort, cynical brothel madam, lesbian liberation, ungrateful kids etc), the forced acting, the wooden dialogue, the unlikable characters that are impossible to attach to, the endless piano soundtrack covering up bad background noise over slow-mo porn, the faux/feigned/forced sentiment, the sanctimonious message, the erotica laced with feigned "philosophical" therapy talk, and the almost sociopathic disassociation from a central issue as devastating as terminal cancer, the most redeeming thing about this walking advertisement for gay normalcy is it's done with a degree of tasteful sensitivity and got a well-used switcharoo trope that approaches surprise.If you think this is somehow "deep", you clearly must be the type of insincere person this kind of film appeals to, who thinks it means "slow motion shots with piano". It's pure self- indulgent claptrap with a self-involved character from a self-indulgent director trying to sell pink ideology whilst willfully ignoring the challenging issues it could really have bitten into.If you're going to try to extrapolate a "milf" porn scenario into a serious film, at least add some blowback to decisions and/or make your characters remotely human. You want your audience to actually care if your protagonist dies.Go rent "Milk", "Circumstance", or "Boys Don't Cry" instead.