Great dialog, zero direction

Rating: 3/10 (9 April 2005)

I had to give this a 3/10, even though I think it's a better film than that, just to do something about the abhorration of it being in the IMDb Top 250. We have some serious soul-searching to do if we really believe that.
Anyway, amazing a great evening at dinner listening to two people having a fascinating conversation that you're not part of, and you walk away feeling that you wish you were most interesting. At the same time, the restaurant food wasn't that great and you were only ten bucks down.
Essentially, I've not seen a film with such little direction before. I'm sorry, let me be more specific - Derek Jarman's Blue - gets the title for least direction, and Batman & Robin gets the title for Most Appalling Direction of Global Movie History. But this does something different in that it's like strapping a camera to my head while I walk around Paris all day (slowly) and then dubbing a fascinating conversation on the top.
Still, even though the dialog is great, dialog alone does not a great film make. It's a play wearing the dress of a movie. I hear there's a sequel in the pipeline by the way.