Friday, February 17, 2012
AMBIDEXTROUS
Today's film was Tom Tykwer's (Run Lola Run) film
A NYTimes Critics' Choice.
It Is about a threesome and how it comes about as well as the atmosphere in which the relationships bloom. The atmosphere is a lot of high flown stuff about cells and in vitro fertilization and stem cells and such. Ethics of science.
In the real world two people meet, a man and a woman, they are attracted to each other. Subsequently the woman's husband meets the man she is seeing and they hit it off as well.
On the face of it, this sounds vaguely like a pornish hookup but it is not. It is Tykwer's great skill to bring us a full, exciting, often nicely funny story about how this evolves and what happens next. It is a very sophisticated film.
There are a lot of split screens that advance the plot and other gadgets which are quite delightful.
I liked the movie very much and recommend it highly to anyone with a more sophisticated taste for a thinking movie that has hot sex too.
How often do we see this happen?
Not enough.
I think a 5 for this. I will want to see it again I am pretty sure. It is very rich and generous. Lots of enjoyable scenes and interactions. The actors are very very good. Gotta be for this kind of thing.
