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Uber Ritter:
Just saw it with my girlfriend over the weekend.  I really, really liked it.  An ex of mine described it as 'lost in translation with words' but on the whole I find it less pretensious, less artful and less mopey (not that I don't really like both movies).

Why do I prefer love stories where no one has sex so much over more conventional ones?

pilsner:
Great movie.  I'm told that in the scene by the beach where Glen Hansard asks Markéta Irglová "do you love him" in Czech, she responds "I love you."  I don't see why they couldn't get together in the end -- it's not like Ireland doesn't have indie labels and Hansard would have made an excellent step-dad. . . . 

I'm a sap.

KvP:
Because she still loved her hubby who was coming to Ireland?

imapiratearg:
It was kind of obvious throughout the whole movie that she was still in love with her husband.  From the preview, it appeared like she was going to divorce him and get with Hansard's character.  I think it would have been better if it ended that way.  Especially since the scene both when they meet on the street and the bus scene, his character seems like he doesn't want his ex back.

Uber Ritter:
You see, as I said before, I think the character's relationship perfect as it is as far as what I'd want from it.  I'm a sap but in that case this entails an appreciation for what might have been, could never have been etc. rather than necessarily requiring conventional consumation.  There's just something very true to life about two people connecting briefly and walking away.  Sad, but hardly tragic, just sad the way life is kinda sad sometimes, but not in a bad way.  I think it's very moving without being overly dramatic or weepy like some love stories (many old-fashioned ones, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde) can be.  Also the ambiguity of feeling I find to show human beings at their richer and more interesting when compared with the romantic passion and its attendant cliches.  Hell, I like unconsumated romances, unclassifiable relationships and unrequited loves enough to even have enjoyed such things in my own life, though perhaps now that I have a 'normal' girlfriend it is easier to appreciate such things in hindsight.

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