Eat Pray Love Bilingual

The movie is based on a book written by Elizabeth Gilbert and it's actually based on her real-life experience. Julia Roberts plays Liz - she has a wonderful house, a good husband and a career but one night she just falls apart realizing that she's empty and her fire for life has gone out. She divorces her husband, who is heart broken and decides to leave America and travel to her dream destinations to find the meaning of life and heal her soul.

First stop is Italy - where she enjoys the amazing food, learns the language and meets wonderful peopel with whom she becomes great friends. Next stop is India where she attends a spiritual program - here she learns to meditate and listen to her inner self. And last, she travels to Bali where she falls in love.

The movie is beautifully filmed, all 3 locations are just amazing to watch. The actors are so down to earth that it's a pleasure to watch all of them. I think people will feel a very deep connection to this movie if they're in a similar place in their lives. And I hope that this movie will be an inspiration to just take that leap, to drop everything and travel to your dream destination, life is too short and Liz did what a lot of people wouldn't be able to do. She faced her fears and did what her heart told her to do. The story was emotional and funny and very touching. Liz meets some great characters along the way and every one of them is memorable and different from the other. It was a pleasure to watch and I would watch it again.

You guessed it, wife's turn to pick the movie. In the past this worked for the best, getting exposed to good movies I would not had picked otherwise. This time though I was itching for a magazine well before the movie was halfway through (I did not however: if my wife can be trooper and take IRON MAN 2 so can I).

A woman in mid-life crisis ends her unfulfilling marriage to her equally immature and directionless husband for no other major reason. The divorce is messy with a lot of guilt to be distributed around. A brief (cougar-)affair ends equally badly so she embarks in a year-long journey to redefine herself.

The journey starts from Italy where apparently she learns to appreciate life's little pleasures and how to enjoy them guilt-free. This part made me hungry for good Italian pasta with fresh tomato sauce and basil but little else. Having said that I have been to Naples and (with all due respect to my Napolitano friends), one can find much better-tasting pizza in Vancouver.
By the way, when someone decides to accept her body no matter its imperfections and goes shopping for larger jeans, she does not then proceed to force the zippers of ...smaller sizes.

India was next and it was a disaster. The guru she has traveled so far to meet is visiting the US and her disciples run her ashram like something between a hostel and a Scientology sweat-shop. She receives no enlightening guidance except some overused bromides from a Texan in his post-alcoholic guilt trip.
I love Indian culture and have a great respect for Indian people. Unlike SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, this movie however will not make you want to visit this mesmerizing country.

Finally, Bali where she meets again a toothless old medicine-man/palm reader. She copies some notes; she runs a short but effective charity fund; and she finds lust/love in the sad eyes of a Brazilian divorcee. What did she learn in the previous year: apparently nothing because she is about to run away from that relationship as well. Will she? Well, at that point point I could not care less.

I gave it 2-stars solely for the travelogue images.

For the record, my wife did not like it either.

super bon film malgré quelque critique et des différences sur le livre et le film mais moi jai bien aimé les expressions et lhistoire du film qui est véridique (fait vécu) et vive la dolce vita :)