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movie review - This is Forty

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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.

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