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Title: waste of time
Review: This movie got more confusing as it went on. The only reason we kept watching was the excellent cast, which was wasted on a rambling, pretentious, faux arty mess. Four simultaneous and overlapping plot lines with four families is an invitation to chaos, and they fully take that opportunity. Lots of intriguing possibilities but nothing really develops into coherence - reminiscent of Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" in its bleak, unrelenting despair. Like other reviewers have noted, the sudden happy sending seemed false and grafted on, suggesting that the movie makers had the same trouble we did in figuring out where all this was going.
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