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Chilly Love Songs
After reading a handful of lukewarm reviews of this film I really wasn't expecting much, so I was glad I had followed my Joaquin Phoenix obsession and rented it.
It's not going to set the world a-flame but it's no way as bad as some critics made out. If you liked Solaris, Donnie Darko, Space Odyssey, The Day After Tomorrow, The Paralax View, The X Files, Bladerunner, Paycheck, 21 Grams, Hitchcock, M Night Shyalaman, Wim Wenders, Don't Look Back, etc, then you should give it a go. The central performances are quietly flawless, the colours are by turns lush and chilled, the direction and crisp cinematography lend the film pace and rhythm which is confident and measured and allows events to unfold - as you can tell I ended up really liking it. I won't try to explain the plot, or tell you that it's a love story in sci-fi camouflage fatigues, because that'll put you off - but if you accept that the film is essentially true to it's own logic and go with it you'll be fine. The mood of the film is by turns sinister, sad, sweet and sexy - and although it is set in the near future it is soaked in an uneasy nostalgia for a more innocent era - thrown into unwitting counterpoint by a couple of incidental glimpses of the World Trade Center. Add it to your list. |
