This is a movie built almost entirely out of dialog

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2006)

This is a movie built almost entirely out of dialog, and it's real good! The acting, too, I caught myself halfway through the movie becoming seriously attracted to Julie Delpy's characterI think I love heran example of the acutely tuned acting in the movie is the scene in which they approach the bench and then sit on it for a while, the gestures that express a desire to touch checked by hesitation, held backas he is physically holding back, she is doing so emotionally, contriving a casual attitude towards their night spent together 9 years earlier, towards the hopes and fears which have grown inside her since that night and which for her are connected with that night and with him. And their conversation is just full of compelling thoughts and ideas; it raises to the surface large and latent feelingsI am not referring to their desires to solve world issues, but rather to the more personal thoughts that come out suddenly and wake some sleeping impression in methey spend long stretches in moderately stimulating discussion, and then, he or she will say something that they've been thinking about all along, this constitutes the ebb and flow of the film's energy, it's what makes it dynamicif the world was ending tomorrow and I knew it, "I probably wouldn't want to talk about the environment, or my bookI'd still want to talk about magic in the universeonly I'd want to do it in a bed in between intense love making sessions with you."