Title: Dire
Product review: Sometimes a movie comes along which everyone cracks up as a masterpiece, nominates for Oscars and all that, when actually it's terrible. "Being There" was one of those. This is another. It's pointless and silly without being funny. Actually, it's rather painful. You sit watching it wondering what idiocy is coming next. It's slow, and really rather boring. There is absolutely, totally, utterly no point in having half the film set in an office with a shoulder-high ceiling. I was willing to laugh, or even smile, but after about ten minutes I couldn't. Contrast this mess with "The Purple Rose of Cairo", a genuinely witty, touching and ingenious film, although founded on a similarly wacky premise. Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear. What might Woody Allen have made of this basic material?
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