And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)

Review by All Movie Guide
And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen is more classy than compelling. It's exotic in a conventional way, with a suave high-class jewel thief, a French singer trying to forget her past, a Moroccan locale, and other details that seem more like movie homages than fully developed story ideas. The visuals are suitably lush, the score is appropriately romantic, and the memory blackouts provide director Claude Lelouch with a character-based reason to fiddle with the film's narrative structure (which is interesting most of the time but annoying at the end). However, there isn't a lot of heat between the two leads, the supporting characters are underdeveloped (and their story lines are distracting), the film's tone fluctuates unevenly from one scene to the next, and there's not much narrative drive to this movie. The end result is an attractive-looking motion picture that isn't fully satisfying emotionally. ~ Todd Kristel, All Movie Guide