Sunday, April 8, 2012

Tuesday, After Christmas

Romania

This film began with an 8 minute, after-sex nude scene which I found off-putting and intrusive. The last film I can remember that started this way was Betty Blue all those years ago. This one too eventually redeemed itself.

We follow an affair and marriage break-up centered on a schlubby thirty-something. Many long scenes with no cuts - which made us feel we were peering closely into the reality of these peoples' lives. The two women were well-played...the guy was a cipher. Lots of declarations of love but he didn't succeed in making it seem like it was so. He seemed detached from everyone around him (except for the opening sequence) and maybe even from himself.

Overall this worked as a contemporary domestic melodrama...not a film you'd urge friends to watch but not a waste of time either.

5

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