This movie has no plot, no action, no character development, no content, and absolutely no justification to exist. There's no eye candy or food for thought, no rhyme and certainly no reason.
I could just bemoan the loss of 2 precious hours of the twilight of my life, if I wasn't so infuriated by all the fine films by women, people of color, working class directors, and radicals that don't get funded and don't get distributed. The writer/director Whit Stillman, a pale male with a reputed film pedigree, must have downed a large steaming cup of bland while doing this one.
I went to see it with two friends at the noon showing for seniors (just $4, thank gawd) and afterwards we understood why we were the only patrons in the house.
I'm baffled. Never heard of this movie, and I don't know from what you wrote why you went to see it.
Posted by: Allen Young | 02 May 2012 at 23:05
I went because two of the elders I teach asked me ages ago to go to the Senior Special at the local cinema with them, so it was a social thing. Plus this director has a big hoo-hah reputation.
Posted by: Sue Katz | 02 May 2012 at 23:29