rjp-40901
Joined Jun 2016
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Far-fetched plot - check
Improbable dialogue -check
Plastic supporting characters- check (except Parker Posey who was good)
But it's a Woody Allen film so it's expected. Phoenix has always been off-putting to me but playing a troubled professor suited him. As for Emma Stone she got her Woody checkmark.
A wife and mother of two girls dies in a car crash. Husband Colin Firth takes a teaching job in Genoa trying to give his family a change of scenery. Atmospheric, with the beaches contrasted to the narrow alleys which the girls in particular have to walk through. It's a story of grief and new beginnings, with much inner tension, especially between the younger daughter and her older teenage sister. One of those slice of life pictures.
Dialogue-heavy can be interesting if the dialogue is well written. This isn't. Before Sunrise parallels but that was a well done film. This is sadly an example of certain Canadian films; unfocused, cliched and lacking a plot. Tracy Wright and Molly Parker do their best. Fun seeing Callum Keith Rennie as always.
Lots of storylines that go nowhere. Interesting seeing Toronto places, hey that's the Etobicoke School For the Arts, there's Herb something Motors which was a former car dealership. The shot of streetcars, downtown buildings, and Don McKellar gets two lines. Sarah Polley is in this but can't recall who she was. Backstage manager?
Lots of storylines that go nowhere. Interesting seeing Toronto places, hey that's the Etobicoke School For the Arts, there's Herb something Motors which was a former car dealership. The shot of streetcars, downtown buildings, and Don McKellar gets two lines. Sarah Polley is in this but can't recall who she was. Backstage manager?