In François Ozon's new film we witness five key scenes in the life of a Parisian couple played in reverse order. Therefore, we begin with their divorce and move backwards taking in an uneasy dinner party, childbirth, their wedding day, and finally, how they first met. If you wanted to be cynical you could argue that 5x2 is a brutal, and yet, honest subversion of the archetypal love story which comments that if you want a happy ending you have to start at the end and work your way towards the beginning. Although the concept isn't original, the merits of this film - of which there are many - lie in its simplicity. The space between the five scenes is the distance between love and the knowledge that love eventually dies. By conjuring that space to life - indeed making it the very subject of the film - Ozon creates a thoughtful and adult mediation on the deterioration of love, culminating in a scene which is at first romantic, yet ultimately tragic.