Lovely, Still

Deb 5 Me 7

This didn’t look very good in the previews, but I’d rather take a chance on it than go see a big hit. The trailer made it look slow and sappy. It stars Martin Landau, and I’ve never been much of fan. He always seemed too caricaturish for my taste. Also stars Ellen Burstyn; she’s fine. So you get the picture this is about old people. Landau in particular looks to be very old. And even though she’s only four years younger, there were scenes where you could have believed Ellen to be his daughter. The fear of old people in movies is that there’s going to be some smart ass director who wants to show us old people naked. This was directed by someone I’ve never heard of and he did a good job. There’s a couple young supporting actors, the girl I recognized. The guy; not familiar.

Sure enough, it started out slow. Some of the supporting characters seemed to be out of The Office TV show and it was in jeopardy of fizzling out all together. It was getting sappy. But the female lead was peculiarly aggressive and we were getting hints of a mystery behind the boredom. Eventually you acclimate to the pace and settle in on following the story. You start to notice the scenes are looking more like a Kubrick movie and the pace picks up. Not that it gets much passed a crawl mind you, but once you’re settled into the mellow tempo, any variation in activity stands out.

I liked the movie. It’s no big deal flick that you’re going to tell all your friends to go see, but for sitting in a dark room for an hour and a half, it’s a pretty good way to be entertained.