★ 5 / 10
How she treats him is awful. Imagine it
Keith C
How she treats him is awful. Imagine it the other way around she SHE falls down and he just tuts and walk away!!!
How she treats him is awful. Imagine it the other way around she SHE falls down and he just tuts and walk away!!!
★ 8 / 10
What an astonishing ninety-some minutes of movie watching
Kevin L
What an astonishing ninety-some minutes of movie watching! This remarkable slice of cinema is some sort of damn near perfect film, as ridiculous the idea of…
What an astonishing ninety-some minutes of movie watching! This remarkable slice of cinema is some sort of damn near perfect film, as ridiculous the idea of that is. I don't really give a care, it knocked me out.
This is a long-lived in house; this is well worn in shoes, with shredded soles and frayed laces where aglets used to sleep; flop, crinkle, sag and bop. A weekend away in Paris, where the city of lights becomes a setting for encounters, attacks (verbal and even physical), reflection, desire unfulfilled but love scrambling madly to stay afloat in a sea of (yes, I will) ennui, a lake of flakes.
The near-constant swinging of Meg's moods, moments of Nick's self-pitying, questioning himself and his marriage, their open admonishments and admissions- these are the broken little palaces of life and monogamy. Is she bipolar? Tripolar? Are they breaking up? Or is this the ebb & flow, the familiarity breeding its contempt, the winging and wagging that will make it all bare-able from now on?
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are astonishing as this very authentic, almost too fully realized couple. They maintain this brilliance with their keen skills, but the ingenious, perceptive writing of Hanif Kureishi make it all the easier. Its director, Roger Michell, hits all the notes right, letting the city, the script, and his grand lead actors fill it all in. Plus, there's Jeff Goldblum being endlessly, helplessly Jeff Goldblum. This man is never really sad. I am Jack's jealous ego. 4 stars
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Excellent movie - great cast - evocative