Married Life
September 23rd, 2007
“A funny story, in its way, about a man who wanted to poison his wife and found he’d be lost without her.” With these words, Richard (Pierce Brosnan) sums up the events of Ira Sachs’s second film. Note the careful qualification “in its way,” which already suggests that perhaps Married Life isn’t all that funny, and maybe not much of a story, either. In fact, it’s the first film at this year’s New York Film Festival that I wish I had walked out of.
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Married Life. Ira Sachs, 2007. *
After the Sunset
April 13th, 2006
Could have been great: Salma Hayek, Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris, Chris Penn, the Bahamas. For a good 90mins, it’s every bit as much fun as Ocean’s Eleven, but unfortunately, they totally botched the ending. How hard is it to pick a formula and stick with it?
