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Author: Mike Figis
Unusual film. Like most of Figis’ films, it’s overlong, slow, and boring. In this case that’s a surprise, since it’s four films happening at once. The entire movie is an experiment: the screen is split into four screens in which multiple interrelated stories take place. Sometimes you see the same story from multiple viewpoints. Interesting idea, but since the whole film takes place in real-time, there are long periods in which nothing happens in one or more quadrants. For instance, in one, a woman waits in a limo, smoking and reading for thirty minutes. Yeah, that’s entertainment. The film’s multiple plots are interrelated and occasionally interesting, but the whole thing’s too disjointed to be a real movie. It’s an interesting experiment, but nothing more, and despite the presence of a number of big stars, it’s not a good film.
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