Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 23:38:16 GMT
Yes Sally Potter 2004 UK / USA A Belfast-born American living in London has an affair with a chef from Beirut. Striking similarities to Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul, in its bringing together of different cultures and showing the impracticality of such relationships in a seemingly ignorant society - and so happiness is found at the end in Communist Cuba. It has a consistent visual method of trapping its characters in the far left or right of frame, captured behind various barriers and visual obstructions. The rhyming verse in which every character speaks works more often than not, and the film as a whole is interesting by virtue of being different, but at times it is flat and simply uninteresting...the final sequence seems to last forever, and a stretch for emotion seems undeserved.
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