Give me a break...

well yeah...but its not about young women its about a woman on the verge of middle age with no prospects. It wasn't about having the "perfect" relationsjip as it was about just having a decent one.

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Nora seems to me as just another shallow character that I had a hard time rooting for. She just seems to be the typical whiny female archetype of our age group that can't have the perfect (beautiful) guy. Girl, it's time to grow up! That's not how things are, and I'm really fearful stories like this somehow encourage young women into thinking thats how things work out.

We ALL want the perfect relationship, but, that's not the real world.

God, you must really have it all together. I applaud you. Nora is like many of us who go through life fulfilling the basic requirements of the day-to-day, yet on the inside, something big is missing and when we get to a certain age we have to face the fact that there might really be no one who will love us the way we have always believed will happen. And that is a big adjustment to make, and a bitter pill. Like so many thirty-something, urban people (women and men) Nora is unhappy with who she is, how she fits into the world and what she has put in, and gotten back out of her job, her relationships and her life. There's a lot of truth here and a lot to think about, and how you could watch Posey wring the life out of this character and invest her with as much feeling and pathos as she does, and not respond at all or think the movie needed to "grow up" is beyond me.

You really missed the point of this film. Do you think that she is looking for a "beautiful guy" as you put it? If anything, she is looking for someone to prove to her that she is worthy of being loved, and that love even exists. And to this misguided end, she winds up finding--herself--and only then, after she begins to like herself and develop confidence in herself, does this man appear once again. If she had found him when she first arrived in Paris, she was in no frame of mind or even complete enough as a person to have a successful relationship with anyone. She was co-dependent. She was emotionally vulnerable.

Not so at the end of the film when they reunite. The saying goes, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." And that is exactly what happens in life and here. It is about so much more than you say when you talk about just finding a perfect relationship. She finds one all right -- with herself and her own skin.

Your final statement, "We all want the perfect relationship, but that's not the real world," seems to indicate that you of all people should be able to understand where Nora Wilder is coming from here.

I am free. But life is so cheap.

Even if she has a pushy mother who's still trying to marry her off at age 30, and she herself would very much like a steady relationship, tell me one interesting thing about her character. Let's see, she practices yoga and does Pilates. She drinks much too much (and lo and behold ends up in bed with the men she's been drinking with). She watches celebrity TV shows. Her job is to make nice for guests at a hotel. And most crucially, nothing of much intelligence or wit ever comes out of her mouth. I am not buying that she's too screwed up to think straight. She's just plain BORING.