COUPLES RETREAT
Watchable. I don't know where they shot it but I want to go there! There's incredibly blue water with colour fish and a pool-side club spinning great music that is open-air and where no one smokes. Never mind the plot is lousy and unfanny, even containing a joke about being marked by sharks for later that I heard in a different film before. Jean Reno of "Le Grand Bleu" fame is aptly cast as the owner of the marine paradise. Now, where's my snorkel?
TRIANGLE
Watchable. The beginning was so boring that I switched off and really started paying attention when they boarded the ghost ship. A great mistake. The subsequent puzzle was so intriguing that I ended up going to another screening to see the beginning once more. The time loop makes it feel lengthy but the mystery stays with you after you leave the cinema.
PASSAGE
Watchable. While it's historically revealing, the film attempts to be too artistic to be a decent documentary. It's incoherent with: casually dressed actors reading roles, the same performers acting in period costumes, an explorer following Ray's footsteps in the Arctic, the same investigator talking to people in Scotland, the crew discussing history, visiting places - all loosely stitched together. Many scenes could do with shortening too.
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