Showing posts with label Atom Egoyan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atom Egoyan. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Chloe (2009): review: 6/10

Icy Toronto: a woman hires a prostitute to discover if her flirtatious husband is susceptable to having an affair.

This, as we discover during the film, is a very foolish thing to do.

Well acted and swiftly directed, if somewhat formulaic.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Calendar (1993): review- 2.5/10

An essay on lost love and Armenian churches by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, who plays a photographer who has visited Armenia to photograph its churches and had a fling with his translator.

Definately arthouse: it probably has something to do with memory, loss, video tape, and the elusiveness of truth.

A film for those who like to sit and ask themselves, "I wonder what this fim is about?": others will find it extremely pretentious.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Adjuster (1992): review-2/10

Interminable drama that suffers from a mistaken sense of its own profundity.

Noah is an insurance inspector while his wife works as a censor for the Canadian board of films, classifying pornography. They live in an uncompleted suburban development. She has warts on the soles of her feet. He helps people assessing their insurace claims, putting them up in a motel.

Meandering, obscure and plotless, it's hard to see who this film is intended for.