Flirt

Hal Hartley

Nice little film experiment: one script 20 minutes long done three times in different cities...New York, Berlin and Tokyo...with the roles and genders shifting around.

It would have helped if the script were better. But you couldn't deny the cleverness in what he did with this idea. The context, the underpinning of the story was changed in each segment. In the third segment he did a lot of pure cinema without dialogue to change the sense of the story.

Not a home run, rather something like Timecode...an intriguing idea, well executed.

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