I am fascinated with this as a failed novel adaptation. I don't think a "better" adaptation of this script would make a good movie, but I have to amuse myself somehow.
There is a scene where Tilda Swinton just reads entire paragraphs of text while Julianne Moore does silent gesturework, nodding and closing doors and re-arranging books.
There is a scene where the two are standing in front of the staircase that obviously leads into a house and one says…
(watching the scene where Adam Driver delicately holds Nathalie Emmanuel above a 30-story drop with a single one of his big strong hands on the small of her back) reylo nation strong
Throughout all of history, there have been situations where queer people and straight people have entered open relationships. Each one is a unique crystal, some of joy and freedom, some of compromise and negotiation, some of disappointment and pain.
Films like Maestro, Bohemian Rhapsody and Benediction only know how to express this in the language of martyred queens and perfidious kings. The girlfriend holds her fiancé's hands and says "I know what you're like and I'm chill with it btw,…
I normally wouldn't bother to review a first time indie feature if I don't have anything nice to say, but I am so clearly the film's target audience - and it certainly drops enough unsubtle references to the kind of films I usually love.
I want to say that using amateur pornography as a setting was the misstep - the film's disinterest in the subject matter suggest it would have been better served by being about ordinary filmmakers - but…
