Thursday, August 16, 2012
DECADES AND CHANGE
Today's Jim Sturgess film was
with Anne Hathaway.
A young couple meet in the 80s and we look at them every year on the same date. They decide to get together then but that is less the point as some years they do not get together.
They are the best of friends who also have this thing that they can't quite work out.
I liked it a lot. The two actors are very good and guide us through the possible rough spots and the artificiality of it. It all makes sense eventually.
They are not always the nicest of people. Even to each other. But they always connect. And we do see the folks around them.
The director Lone Scherfig comes from the dogme school (all natural lighting, all off the cuff, etc) but does not seem to be pushing that here as much as a free form catching of vignettes from this couples life together and some apart. We get to assemble the pieces.
Nothing is left dangling really except a bit of critical information that ends up not being critical.
This is a 4 out of Netflix5 for me.
A great part for young Sturgess who is on as much as Hathaway. It is their picture.
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