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Title: Retro juvenilia groping for profundity
Review: This badly acted botch of a film plays like a parody of pretentious 1970s arthouse movies which were, in turn, tired tributes to pretentious French movies from the 1960s. Lots of apparently disconnected scenes, scrambled in time, evolving at a glacial pace towards a pseudo-profound conclusion. Finally, and thankfully, the various strands are gathered together to make a few trite and adolescent points. Dreadful stuff. When I was 15 years old (in the 1970s) I would have regarded this movie with awe. Now, I simply wonder why a fine director would make such a silly and self-indulgent film so far into his career. Mr Figgis, please return to making movies for adults. Viewers, don't waste your time.
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