Watchable. A standard romantic comedy providing occasional loud laughs, e.g. when the guy enters the Inland Revenue office and immediately turns back attempting to leave while a lady working there presses on the door to shut it from the other side or when a coach's client notices his bunny tail pants when his trousers slip down as he's bending over something in the kitchen. Other than that he throws darts to pick a book to read next and he's quite an ordinary decent guy. She's a bitch hell-bent on promotion who "starts feeling pangs of conscience and can't cope with it". A priest charging an exorbitant sum for a baptism gets dubbed "Jezusa przedstawiciel... handlowy" ("Jezus's... sales rep"). The movie's really pleasant but sad at times (those "pangs of conscience").
"Peter Rabbit" is coming out this year and the trailer is promising. Looks like rabbits will wreak havoc all over England. And brilliant Domhnall Gleeson is in it.
Нелюбовь (LOVELESS)
Recommended. Powerful. The disappearance of the child reveals how little his parents care or know about their son. He'd been missing for two days before they found out. No dogs are used in the subsequent search, as it would normally happen in real life, so it takes several days. Other issues tackled include the top-down corporate culture where the CEO's taste determines the way of spending team-building time. One organises pilgrimages to holy shrines, another one extreme sports events and the subordinates unwillingly try to fit in. In the penultimate scene the woman's wearing a tracksuit with "Russia" on it. But if it's meant to be an allegory of the country, "Krotkaya" ("A Gentle Creature" aka "Una femme douce") did it much better and without such an overt display of the name. And while the film hit me hard, in the Oscar race I still root for Hungarian "Testről és lélekről" ("On Body and Soul") which is more subtle and original. As for the Russian candidate, the music over the credits is a masterpiece. And if the movie doesn't give you creeps, the final score will.
Нелюбовь (LOVELESS)
Recommended. Powerful. The disappearance of the child reveals how little his parents care or know about their son. He'd been missing for two days before they found out. No dogs are used in the subsequent search, as it would normally happen in real life, so it takes several days. Other issues tackled include the top-down corporate culture where the CEO's taste determines the way of spending team-building time. One organises pilgrimages to holy shrines, another one extreme sports events and the subordinates unwillingly try to fit in. In the penultimate scene the woman's wearing a tracksuit with "Russia" on it. But if it's meant to be an allegory of the country, "Krotkaya" ("A Gentle Creature" aka "Una femme douce") did it much better and without such an overt display of the name. And while the film hit me hard, in the Oscar race I still root for Hungarian "Testről és lélekről" ("On Body and Soul") which is more subtle and original. As for the Russian candidate, the music over the credits is a masterpiece. And if the movie doesn't give you creeps, the final score will.
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