Strange that, as I write, no one has reviewed this movie. So I will try - I don't even speak Sinhalese...
A young and attractive student falls for her professor, who's about forty years her senior. Why? Is it that the inner man, at least, is somehow unattainable? But she persists. Her presence causes ripples in the precisely ordered routine of the professor's family life with his wife and daughter. Strangely, she does more than just ignore or abuse the professor's family, and they too begin to acknowledge her.
The action is, without a doubt, slow paced. At times the professor will just sit on his bed. Sometimes he also removes his shirt to reveal a vest and belly that would struggle to set anyone's heart racing. Sometimes, he takes a shower. In the mornings, he drops his daughter at her school. But it is through variations in these repeated actions that mood is detected.
The focus drifts away from the university and lectures towards home and temple and the professor's wife.
It certainly takes plenty of patience on our behalf, but the film does have something to say about the family's unconventional response to an unconventional affair.
