Alicia I love this movie so much

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Tom Murray Three groups of people in three unrelated stories occasionally intersect in a trivial manner. There is a massage therapist who cannot touch her daughter, an eye doctor who is going deaf, a prostitute with a deaf daughter, a baker with little sense of taste whose boyfriend cannot talk English, a gay man who is obsessed with odours and who believes that he can smell love. The film also bathes the audience in sights and sounds. The plot is minimal, just sufficient to propel us through three days of their lives. A central occurrence that runs through the three stories is the disappearance of a 3-year-old girl from one of the stories. The pace is slow and the mood is entirely captivating. This is a very unique film.

tedg Spoilers herein.The problem with this sort of film is that everything you can get comes from the actors, and the absolute most that they can deliver under these circumstances is truth. But both film and film actors are capable of so very much more that even when these little projects are done well, they lack the greater magic.Still, sometimes this type of thing captures me. The Altman and Anderson rambles do, even `Perfume' in its way. Certainly `Things You can Tell..' though that's serial not parallel. This and `Lantana' did not, though I have no complaints with the actors. I guess I need something with more teeth than general angst wrapped in a rather poor metaphor. And I was expecting so much more, because that metaphor could have been cast in terms of cognition in general meaning the connections and perceptions of the artists to the viewers. The subject of human relationships could have extended to that of them related to us. When the tagline advertised after the style of Egoyan, that's what raised my hopes. Now, an interesting question is how many people think that Egoyan is just about the lives of the characters, that it is constrained to the story? Not many I hope.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 4: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

William J. Fickling This is one of those films that must have looked very good in concept but fails in execution. It has a strong screenplay and good actors, but fails miserably in execution. I will admit to a bias against films that are self-consciously arty, which may have prejudiced my viewpoint, but if you can get through this one without rolling your eyes, sighing, or squirming in your seat, then you have a higher tolerance for directorial self-indulgence than I do.

adelbert The sense of sensing identity unifies these people by means of there (organic) five senses. They smell, see, hear, taste and touch each other by means of their sixth sense:they discover it by theirselves and by each other by means of the same senses. There are many more senses... But it is beautiful to see a film which show so many senses only by showing five of them.