Married Life (2007)This was the first movie that I viewed last night in our cities 37th annual international film festival. Always a welcome addition to bleak winter days and nights, the best of international films and documentaries are shown throughout the local art house cinemas. Competition to book early and get the best seats is fierce, and after last years disaster where even our short knees touched the seats in front of the horrid row R (and I am short!!), we were relieved to be sitting in row J, a large leather/vinyl seat with the a name on a brass plaque.
The movie, was so so, I am afraid I nodded off at several stages, and I may have missed some thrilling moments. A look at the the entwining relationships of a married couple in the late 1940s, it was saved by the tones of Pierce Brosnan narrating. As often occurs at this festival the director Ira Sachs had traveled from the US and introduced his own movie and stayed at the end to answer questions. I cringed inwardly at the end as about 3/4 of the audience rudely left the theatre. As we had 45 minutes before our next movie and proper manners we stayed to hear about his experience shooting the movie in Vancouver. However it is hard to not clench as the time ticks by, and with 10 minutes left we had to skedaddle down to the next cinema to catch the second show of the evening.
1/5 from me.
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