Something not sitting well. Style trumps substance. Situations and performances a little reductive, caricaturish. Not a film one wants to revisit more than once: because it doesn’t especially bring one closer to ‘truth’ (whatever such a thing could be). Prefer the other films of his corpus to date— even the highly ambitious and flawed The Fountain.


B–/B

Related posts:

  1. Another Year – Mike Leigh
  2. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger – Woody Allen
  3. The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
  4. Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen


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