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movie review - This is Forty

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.03.07

This is a movie about a couple who are dealing with middle age. It's somehow emotionally insincere and stilted, like a Woody Allen movie. There are points where you can almost see the actors struggling with the material, which is something because apparently three of the actors are in the writer-director's immediate family. I won't relate the plot because it's more of a character thing and neither plot nor characters are enough to report on.

I toughed it out for some reason but there was no payoff.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

—Terry Pratchett (as Lord Vetinari)