Won't be long on this movie. The first half an hour was one of the most boring i have had to face since i've started watching movies. The story didn't advanced, nothing was explained about any of the characters. It felt like a non-movie. (A lot of people had already left the audience at this point).
A lot of the scene were totally unjustified and unexplained.
The director should have studied film a bit more to know that each sequence, each scene, has to make the story go forward. He never did that.
The supposedly funny moments were contrived, and only a few people laughed (people with a weird sense of humor, i guess).
Prize of the Jury in Cannes 2002.....don't know what the jury was thinking about....probably the "politicly correct effect".
I would have loved to love it, the disappointment was therefore even bigger.
You have to see it to believe it. But wait for the video.