Woozy, Dreamy, and Beautifully Shot, this Soggy and Sloggy Melodrama about Life is a Lifeless Contemplation about an Accidental Death that takes a Heavy Toll on those Involved.
Heavy, to say the Least. The Burden is Barred by a Struggling Writer, a Mother and Her Surviving Son, and a Women Attached to a Now Detached Writer.
This makes for a Movie that makes a Terence Mallick Movie seem High-Voltage. The Screen is Filled with Fallen Faces and Circumstantial Consequences that Manifest as Clinical. The Writer (James Franco) does eventually Move from Under the Guilt and the Mother Makes Art by Contract, but Refuses to call Herself an Artist because of it.
Her Surviving Son Carries the Early Life Tragedy with Him through His Teens and is Decidedly Disturbed. The Film Spans more than a Decade and Leaps Two and then Four Years at a time.
It's Mostly Mood as the Characters make Their Way through the Muck Mostly Moving in "Slow Motion", Reciting Dialog that is Pedestrian and Rarely Profound or Insightful.
It's a Still Life, both Visually and Metaphorically and the Early Accident that Set Things in this Slow Motion now Becomes a Substantial Weight, Carried not only by the Characters Involved, but the Audience as well.
Wim Wenders Directs and also Stars Rachel McAdams and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Heavy, to say the Least. The Burden is Barred by a Struggling Writer, a Mother and Her Surviving Son, and a Women Attached to a Now Detached Writer.
This makes for a Movie that makes a Terence Mallick Movie seem High-Voltage. The Screen is Filled with Fallen Faces and Circumstantial Consequences that Manifest as Clinical. The Writer (James Franco) does eventually Move from Under the Guilt and the Mother Makes Art by Contract, but Refuses to call Herself an Artist because of it.
Her Surviving Son Carries the Early Life Tragedy with Him through His Teens and is Decidedly Disturbed. The Film Spans more than a Decade and Leaps Two and then Four Years at a time.
It's Mostly Mood as the Characters make Their Way through the Muck Mostly Moving in "Slow Motion", Reciting Dialog that is Pedestrian and Rarely Profound or Insightful.
It's a Still Life, both Visually and Metaphorically and the Early Accident that Set Things in this Slow Motion now Becomes a Substantial Weight, Carried not only by the Characters Involved, but the Audience as well.
Wim Wenders Directs and also Stars Rachel McAdams and Charlotte Gainsbourg.