Forever? Never.

From the first scene, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" is pretty much insufferable - this unbearable cute and cloying couple driving through the streets of Los Angeles and acting not like real people but like a screenwriters bizarre idea of how a couple ought to act - and it gets worse from there, as we learn in the second long scene, as the title couple goof around in some sort of expensive LA restaurant that in fact they are an ex-couple - they're divorced but they're still best friends. Their dinner partners bolt from the table because they find this behavior "too fucking weird" (they almost shout this out, which no normal civilized person would do in any public space) - and that's about when I felt like bolting, too. There is nothing you can believe about either character or their relationship or their behavior. The movie is trying so hard to be a contemporary version of Annie Hall or Harry Met Sally - couple that everyone else knows is perfect but they just can't see it or make it work. Well, ultimately, there are a few twists on this theme and a bit of a surprise at the conclusion (as reported to me by M, I couldn't make it beyond the one-hour mark) - but many unbearable trope along the way: the one-night nostalgic hookup with regrets (on her part) the next a.m., many bad dates at many highly expensive hangouts (and then she has a great date at an underground dive dancing bar), his date with a vapid young woman during which he does nothing but pine for the true love of his life, the get-tired riff on putting together Ikea furniture, shall I go on? She, Celeste, has an apparent job as a "trend spotter," and who wouldn't want to do that? - just mouth off on where you see the culture to be heading. As M pointed out, she can spot trends in the culture but not in her own life. It would have been great if that had been a real theme that the movie developed - let's see her perspicacity at work, for example - but it doesn't; also, might have worked if we'd begun earlier - seen C & J getting married, or married, then breaking up, then moving onward. Anyway, a little fluff of a film - not harmful or anything, but no more real or substantial than a snowball in Beverly Hills.