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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
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Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
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Reader rating
Dir: Ira Sachs.
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams
Description: Hard-working Harry Allen finds refuge from his bland wife Pat in an extra-marital affair with sexy blonde Kay. He quickly falls in love with Kay and resolves to leave his wife to pursue the fledgling relationship. However, Harry arrogantly fears that his wife will be completely lost without him and so rather than abandon Pat, he secretly schemes to poison her, thereby putting his spouse out of her misery. When Harry's charming bachelor pal Richard discovers the dastardly plan, he schemes to steal Kay for himself whilst preventing Pat's murder.
Country: US. 2007. 90mins
You could call this Ira Sachs film an ironic and star-crossed romance. It is about a husband (Chris Cooper) who plans to murder his wife (Patricia Clarkson) in order to leave home with his younger mistress (Rachel McAdams). His strange idea is that, since he’s still very fond of her, he doesn’t want her to suffer the separation. The story is told through the eyes of the husband’s best friend (a louche Pierce Brosnan) who has an eye on the mistress himself.
Each character is occupied largely by their own obsessions but still struggles to avoid the inevitable hurt those passions imply. It’s a good cast, with Cooper outstanding, but Sachs’s direction is stodgy and the screenplay is grindingly self-conscious. At least, however, there is a good story to be told and Sachs’s way of telling it may be deliberately old-fashioned, like a familiar Hollywood love story turned inside out.
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