stuartbunce

Good Almodovar Film.

Oh hang on its not one of his.

Could have fooled me.

I liked it. Pedro would be proud of his acolytes.

Good cinematography. The full face close ups are exactly like an Almodovar film

The mise en scene exactly like an Almodovar film.

The colour palette, the set design, the location choices, the humour, all exactly like an Almodovar film.

The casting...you know what.

All that being said, it's nice to watch an almost Almodovar film. Beats most other films made at the moment.

Come on, maybe the final joke of this film is the two directors are actually fictional characters, and really the director is Pedro Almodovar?

Good actors doing their best slowly..and I mean slowly.. find themselves drowning in a sea of self indulgence. This film is twice as long as it should be and is very unfocused. It tries to be too many things at once. It badly needs editing.

Despite Olivia Coleman's efforts, the result is a long winded , ultimately pointless and dull exercise, offering no catharsis in its close up examination of the central characters' psycho drama. By the end of this protracted directorial workshop, this short film premise stretched into two hours of thinly constructed plot leaves one feeling depressed and empty and wondering why so many filmed novels neither communicate the subtext or their source material nor transcend their origins successfully to make riveting drama.