Boris heads to his ex-wife Anna’s country house to collect his belongings. Besides his former wife, her new husband is also living there. To avoid feeling awkward, Boris meets an attractive young woman on his way out of town and asks her to pretend to be his new girlfriend. Anna is stunned by her ex-husband’s audacity, and jealousy quickly takes hold of her. It soon becomes clear that not all feelings between the former spouses have faded away.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
With 'The Last Movie Stars,' filmmaker and fanboy Ethan Hawke cracks the facade of Hollywood's last golden couple, but reveals a couple who were committed to each other before all else.
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
'The Patient' is bound by four walls and a mediocre ending that leaves you wanting more.
'Ms. Davis’ Close Friend' will make you think about the meaning of death and what it means to be alive, and if there’s really a race to be run with one's inevitable demise.
In the film adaptation, director Jon M. Chu turns each musical number into a massive show stopper, with grand set pieces and a wealth of diverse dancers. Yet, in this attempt to show reverence for the people of the Washington Heights barrio, Chu, or maybe more specifically those in charge of casting, left out a crucial part of the community, Afro-Latinos.
