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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 10/22/2013 : 13:00:50
Lotsa crits totally love this, some not so much. I'm in the latter group. Film's bona fides are excellent - but still, the whole for me doesn't connect.
Story's on the surface simple: professional couple - academic, economically comfortable, emotionally not so ... hop the Eurostar to Paris to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. They re-learn stuff along the way, with the deus ex machina device of meeting an old pal who provides space for some anticipated discovery. Well, maybe ...
Just saw it and altho Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are top-notch and then some! the whole thing had that faux-60s feel to it. SPOILER - the minute she put on the hat, you just knew that Godard scene repro would pop up any minute! I enjoyed the gateway to interesting discussion & attempts at examining the fragility of relationships, but it all seemed overshadowed by the script's emotional distance. Only because the couple are so brilliantly portrayed can you forgive what is too easily dismissed as a middle-class white whine. Jeff Goldblum was less mannered than usual, but I still don't believe he "gets it."
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