MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Before Midnight

Deb 6     Me 5

Several of us went to see this and it wore all of us out. Not really enjoyable but not offensive. Its an incredible amount of dialog between two people, intelligent dialog, very Woody Allen like, but like his films, who needs it? An interesting aspect was LONG takes filled with words that put you in the room with them. And like being in the room with the bickering Henderson's you just want to leave after a while. It's shot in Greece, a beautiful place, but like Woody's Paris movie, it may as well have been done on a lot in L.A. There are a couple shots of specific places in Greece, but didn't move the story anywhere. I think that's a big part of the movie, not going anywhere. The camera didn't move much, the players didn't move from their stance in their relationship much and we didn't move to the door soon enough. I give it credit for style and the dialog that often hit home, but not much of a movie. And none of us had a clue bout the origin of the title.
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