I watched about ten minutes and fast-forwarded through the rest. Some middle-aged and elderly couples are hanging out in the park. They can see other couples, but they don't know each other, don't interact, and aren't connected in any way. There is no plot. Nothing happens. It's as if the director just filmed random people on a random Saturday afternoon.
1. Andrew Lincoln (four years before The Walking Dead) and Holly Aird, (recongizable from British tv) discuss sex. Holly gets angry when Andrew looks at a passing woman.
2. Eileen Atkins (Queen Mary on The Crown) and Benjamin Whitrow (on British tv since 1963) meet on a park bench. They discuss getting older and how everything changes, and visit Eileen's husband's grave.
3. Sophie Okenodo (Hotel Rwanda) argues with her boyfriend Nick Sid (don't get excited -- he's not a punk rocker, he's a 54-year old dramatic actor). . She runs off, meets Tom Hardy (Peaky Blinders), decides to have sex with him, and then runs off agian.
4. Ewan McGregor (last seen as the villain Sionis in the Batman spin-off Birds of Prey) and his boyfriend Douglas Hodge (last scene as Alfred the Butler in the Batman spin-off Joker) discuss adopting children and giving up hookups. But then Ewan sees a hot guy and rushes off for a hookup.
5. Adrian Lester (last seen in a tv series with the pompous title Life) and Catherine Tate discuss getting a divorce.
6. Mark Strong chats with Polly Walker, the sex worker he has hired. Sorry, I got tired of looking up the actors. They've all been in hundreds of movies and tv shows, but nothing I've seen.
7. Hugh Bonneville and Gina McKee are on a blind date, until Hugh gets upset at Gina looking at another guy, and leaves. Which is sort of what happened to Couple #1. See how nicely it all ties together?
The actors apparently signed up thinking that they were going to be in a pompous, pretentious movie about Life. But movies aren't real life; that's the first thing they tell you in Film Appreciation 101.
I have an idea: instead of watching this, go to the park with your partner. I guarantee that you'll see more attractive people, and have a more interesting conversation.
Never heard of the movie but, I've just read about it now. I was thinking... "so much sex" but then again, no wonder - look at the title of the movie 😜
ReplyDeleteThe director must have known a lot of name actors before they got famous including young cute Tom Hardy- who once said he was bi until he became a star and forgot about it.
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