Sunday 28 December 2014

Conseguenze dell’amore
[Consequences of Love]
(2004)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD

Claiming to be about every man possessing a secret he cannot reveal. However, swap the words ‘will not’ for ‘cannot’, in the previous clause, and we are closer to the truth than this film dares to go.

Secrets keep us from true intimacy with others precisely because we fear giving away our secrets; ie, we fear closeness: Frightened of dying without first having experienced the fulfilment of love; yet fearing that very completion.

Alternating between a European art house sensibility and slick Hollywood visuals, like its characters, we oscillate between boredom and excitement: The stylistic flourishes keeping the audience awake between the slow parts. A schizophrenic film unable to decide its goals and successfully failing at being anything other than an unempathetic portrait of an unloved junkie; equating fear of love with death.

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