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Alain E @AlainE Dec 1, 2024 Very good acting and photography, but I fail to see a deeper meaning in the story. The young man is clearly unbalanced. Redgrave’s character is receptive to his advances, but in response he gives a little speech about things being bleak. The next day returns and shoots himself in her house. We are presented with various flashbacks to inform us about the different characters. The cast is excellent, but the whole enterprise rather futile. See more Oct 26, 2019 Deeply love this film, the actors' performances and dramatist David Hare...a quiet masterpiece. See more Jul 31, 2014 The non-linear structure takes some getting used to, but this is a really well-made drama with interesting characters and dialogue. Vanessa Redgrave did a sterling job as the school teacher Jean trying to come to terms with her past. I also really liked Joely Richardson playing young Jean in the 1950s. See more Jun 16, 2013 Wow, was this boring...and confusing. It starts with a group of people, five of which being some true Hollywood legends, only younger, eating dinner and then the next morning the unfamous one, admits that he was neither a guest nor invited the night before and blows his head off. Nice gore effect bt the way. The rest of the film is sometimes the direct events leading up to the dinner, sometimes the events after dealing with the Police trying to find out why he killed himself, while there is also a good deal of flashbacks to when our hostess was a younger woman. I still have zero idea why he killed himself, or why showing her younger self basically being a slut had anything to do with it. Maybe it was explained, and I was too busy watching some paint dry? I did find it interesting that our lead is played by Vanessa Redgrave and her younger self is Joely Richardson; who would later end up being mother/daughter on Nip/Tuck, but that has nothing to do with this movie. Seeing younger versions of Redgrave, Holm, Dench and Wilkinson was nice, and dang Joley was crazy gorgeous as well(still is), but I just couldn't get into the story. Maybe someone can someday respond and explain what exactly happened? See more Jan 2, 2013 An interesting build up and retracing of the steps leading up to the tragedy. This film however suffers from dull hanging in periods of tepid dialogue and useless plot development. Partially saved by solid acting, it nonetheless is not particularly memorable. See more May 4, 2010 Incredibly, despite amazing cast, this is more fartsy than artsy. Well-suited to the stage but cinematically lifeless. See more Read all reviews

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