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5X2 (2004)

Michel Lonsdale , Stephane Freiss , Francois Ozon  |  R |  DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Michel Lonsdale, Stephane Freiss, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
  • Directors: Francois Ozon
  • Writers: Emmanučle Bernheim, François Ozon
  • Producers: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc, Philippe Dugay
  • Format: NTSC
  • Language: English, French, Italian
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: IMAGE/THINKFILMS
  • DVD Release Date: July 27, 2006
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000ARXG0E
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,971 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "5X2" on IMDb

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Editorial Reviews

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 and Gilles's 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. Honest to the point of emotional torture, yet compassionate toward his characters, Ozon has constructed a beautifully moving film.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars 5x2 August 14, 2006
Format:DVD
"5x2" (Five Times Two) is written & directed by Francois Ozon, who previously made the English language film "Swimming Pool." That film was a noir-ish murder mystery with lots of sex. A lot of people didn't like it, a lot of people loved it. I fall into the second category. In 5x2 he takes a step back as far as entertainment, but takes a step forward in realism. This movie isn't very original, the story's been done before and the reversal thing's been done hundreds of times...But the dialogue and events happen pretty realistically, which helps. When we meet Gilles (Stephane Freiss) and Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), a married couple they are in front of a divorce lawyer about ready to sign their divorce papers. Once they do and they are officially divorced, they go to a motel room and have quick meaningless sex that neither one of them enjoys. After Gilles asks Marion if she'd like to try again (marriage, that is) she simply leaves. The film jumps backwards to a fairly awkward moment. Gilles and Marion are entertaining Gilles' gay brother and his boyfriend, where Gilles makes some fairly odd revelations. Skipping back again, we see the difficult birth of their son Nicolas; Their marriage; How they met and then, finally, them walking off into the sunset after their first encounter. I know it sounds as if I just ruined the ffilm for you, but rest assured. I just described every event in the film and didn't really tell you anything. This is a good foreign-film; This movie could take place in America just as easily and almost everything Ozon has in this film really happens to the most average couples (with the exception of Gilles' revelation. That only happens with certain ones). The film is no masterpiece and it's not "Brilliant!" like the cover says.... Read more ›
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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars (5 x 2) - (2 x 2) = 3*** March 1, 2006
Format:DVD
I want to point out right away that I thought Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is excellent in this film. After just watching her rather low key performance as a police inspector in Claude Chabrol's The Color of Lies, she shows a dynamic emotional range that I wouldn't have thought her capable. It may be her acting skills have really been finely tuned in the 6 years between films, or it could have just been the way her unemotional character was written for Chabrol's film. Either way, she makes this very dark film, enlightening.

The film portrays a 5 point timeline in the lives of one married couple just completing a divorce. The events are shown in reverse order: 1) the divorce, 2) nearing the end of their marriage, 3) the birth of their son, 4) their wedding night, and 5) when they first became attracted to each other. Breaking the film up into 5 segments actually seems to speed the film along, and breaks the monotony of what could otherwise have been just another talky, morality driven French film.

I think the reverse order is a creative way to tell the tale, however, you ought to make sure the two last chapters (or first chapters) are strong enough to carry the weight of the end of the film. Unfortunately, the first 3 events are what makes this film, and it sadly tails off with the last 2. They are suppose to be the more upbeat time of the relationship, and should be the most satisfying of the film, but we are left with one that is very contrived, and the other rather dull.

The opening divorce sequence is very moving, and opens the very dramatic first hour of the film. We quickly see how much of an a-hole Gilles (the husband) really is, and how seemingly sweet Marion is (that is, until the wedding night sequence).
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet illusion, don't ever become reality! June 5, 2007
Format:DVD
Francois Ozon shows us an original proposal around the intimacies of a couple who started so promisingly a magnificent relationship, but along the road they will meet one each other and the final result will lead them to an expected painful finale.

Valeria Tedeschi was intense and fabulous in this film, hovered by musical memories of old Italian songs that present us the story through a smart flash back, where the end of the movie was their genesis as couple.

On one hand, the final sequence with the fixed camera reminds us Antonioni, and the way Ozon edits reminds us to Erich Rohmer, but the script is extremely crude and powerful that supports and makes of this movie a must see.

If there`s authentic love the fidelity has no sense, because is included in the word.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a unique romanic drama October 1, 2010
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I first came aware of this movie, 5x2, after seeing it on TV. I am puchasing a hard copy because I felt it was fairly intellegent, but entertaing take on marriage. While I generally do not like chick-flicks, this one is an exaption. Just one nitpick, I still don't know why in this day and age there is not a Spanish subtrack. As a learner of the laugue, that would come in handy for the Spanish speakers/learneres in this contry.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Scenes From A Marriage December 14, 2005
Format:DVD
Love and relationships are a strange thing. Whatever our views on the subject may be I think we can all agree, we all go into a relationship expecting the best. But, what if, through some magical power, we could tell how a relationship would turn out just by looking at that person? This is what I was thinking about as I watched this movie.

The film tells the story of a couple that eventually falls out of love and gets a divorce, but the film's gimmick is it is all told backwards. It is not told "Memento" backwards, where each scene is followed by what happened earlier instead the movie is divided in five chapters which are told in reverse order; their divorce, a party scene, the birth of their child, their wedding and finally the first time they met. This is how the movie gets its title. Five chapters about two people, get it?

The movie is directed by Francois Ozon and I think it may be his best film. Here Ozon is dealing with characters and situations I can relate to. It is not the brainteaser "Swimming Pool" was or the fun silly lark "8 Woman" was either. Aesthecially and intelluctally this movie is better than the rest. If anything his "Under the Sand" may be of the same quality.

The couple is played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Marion) and Stephane Freiss (Gilles) neither is an actor I can recall seeing in anything else but it doesn't matter. It helped me believe in these people even more. In the opening scenes we can sense a lot of intensity, a lot of disgust and resentment seems to be in the air. As we watch we wonder what could have lead to this? But as the movie goes on, I found, that these people never really belonged together in the first. Which leads me back to my original thought, what if we had a magical way of knowing how a relationship would end?
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3.0 out of 5 stars An Unhappy Marriage, From Divorce to Wedding
In brief, what happens when you marry the wrong person.

You've had that Tammy Wynette D-I-V-O-R-C-E 45 looped in yer brain for ages now, but you're hesitant to act on... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mick Kelly
2.0 out of 5 stars A Letdown
Good French cinema undeniably exists (the Polish-French collaboration Double vie de Veronique ranks among my favorite films) but from my own personal experience, a... Read more
Published on September 5, 2006 by Ellie Reasoner
4.0 out of 5 stars Looking Back
François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Water Drops on Burning Rocks, etc) is a French director with a style of telling stories that is entirely his own. Read more
Published on March 17, 2006 by Grady Harp
4.0 out of 5 stars this is a pretty good french movie
i've seen some of the totally backwards styled movies, this one is about how a marriage and relationship diluted gradually. Read more
Published on March 2, 2006 by JustAReader
4.0 out of 5 stars Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
I must admit it is refreshing how European (and true domestic Indies) tackles subject matters that Hollywood would not touch with a proverbial 10-foot pole. Read more
Published on February 28, 2006 by Jenny J.J.I.
3.0 out of 5 stars Memento style
This is the French stylized Memento. It's a story of relationship, love, and falling out of love. Good acting, but the plot gets a little boring after a bit. Read more
Published on October 28, 2005 by chicoer2003
3.0 out of 5 stars Love and Marriage Told Reversed Way; Least Successful Ozon Film
[MINOR SPOILER CONTAINED]

The idea is simple: five scenes about a man and a woman, who fall in love with each other, get married, and eventually divorce. Read more
Published on October 4, 2005 by Tsuyoshi
2.0 out of 5 stars The disolution of a marriage...
"5 x 2" tells the story of a couple, in a non-traditional way. It is original, but all the same I hated it, and I don't say that lightly. Read more
Published on July 31, 2005 by M. B. Alcat
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