Review of Forty Shades of Blue

The son of a cantankerous music star visits for a ceremony of awards then has an affair with the young wife of his father. The highlight of this film is the morose performance of Dina Korzun and often unsearchable; the few moments when she shows through her vulnerability-crying in bed after having sex with her husband as an example-are captivating. Apart from her performance, the success of the film is the mere creation of a mood, a consistent melancholy that sometimes becomes overbearing. In reality, I always thought the movie was too morose, too languid. And the character of Rip Torn was inconsistent-not necessarily a flaw in his performance. He is an indomitable and harsh force for the first half of the film, but in the second act he suddenly becomes human, and what once reminded of James Coburn in'' Affliction'' becomes a gnarly mess of storytelling. And she can push her freeze-frame to the end of her butt. Ultimately, Blue's Forty Shades is an art film guided by success with troubling contradictions.