IN THE COURTYARD BD [Blu-ray]

This is not a comedy. This is a riveting movie about real people dealing with real life and how we all need someone to be there for us when life is just hitting us a little too hard. Brilliantly acted by Deneuve and Kervern. Don't watch if you are looking for 'light'. Do watch (almost) every movie Deneuve chooses if you have one ounce of interest in quality cinema.

This is a film that I will be going back to several times. Not at all what I expected, said 'comedy' but I didn't find it funny. However, I was just hooked and could not stop watching. When I tried to explain my feelings to my kids, two of them each commented "you don't watch many French films do you?" So, from that standpoint I'm realizing that this might be a wonderful way to get a better understanding of other nationalities emotions and life styles. I'd say, watch it, but either at a quiet time or with someone you can then talk it over with.

I think this may emanate from personal feelings, but i felt this story glorified the main character's addiction,,,to assay his last weeks of life as an attempt to just die nobly away from his family? He dies alone in his bathroom floor from a heroin overdose. Was his family saved or honored by that choice? I always enjoy catherine deneuve. But the quality and filming did redeem a horror story to a modest level.

Beautiful acting, engrossing film. Catherine Deneuve is brilliant and Gustave Kervern is a gem. A simple story that has so much to say!The cracks that appear in people's lives and how each person copes is full of ironic humour and melancholy. Very much worth the time. I think I've watched it about 5 times now...

She was lonely and desperate because her husband works to much and the janitor needed a job and a place that he can escape from his miserable life with his former wife in the past. The both need each other comforts and they both understand each other.

This was a complex and sensitive movie. It was about how different people handled their difficulties in very different ways, some more successfully than others. While I could not identify with the problems, I could identify with how people just try to do the next thing, get through the next moment. It showed how one's mental direction/choices, in the end, are the determining factor. The movie doesn't say it but I will; Never Give Up.

This movie was funny. After a while of watching one begins to like the characters,then the ending ruins everything!

Good acting but very depressing and sad which was not apparent in trailer

Great movie and worth the buy!