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Title: A great cast cannot save a horrendous film
Review: Despite a cast that ought to be a recipe for success, "Between Strangers" is a plodding film that recycles cliche after cliche after cliche. The characters are one dimensional; the dialogue is amateur, and though the cinematography is rather good, the editor should have been fired. Films that deal in human relationships need to be directed with an eye for nuance and subtlety. It is as if Ponti had fashioned whatever point he was trying to make into a spike and then drove it into your head with a hammer.Lacking the sophistication of "Lost In Translation", the loving and poignant melodrama of "Far From Heaven" and the sense of urgency of "The Hours"--a flawed but very worthwhile film--"Between Strangers" is not even adequate. There is, alas, really nothing good to say about this film. That is a shame.
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