the difficult lives of good-looking people

Rating: 7/10 (19 March 2005)

I find it kind of difficult to tell friends what this movie is about. I generally say it's about a few people who screw each other over. To me this movie seems to suggest that good-looking people all just want to seduce each other. I wonder what this movie would be like with the same script but ugly actors? Anyway, I found this movie interesting throughout, with excellent performances and some riveting scenes, but I also found all the people unlikeable and felt less like I was involved in the personal lives of the characters and more like I was watching them under a microscope. I didn't really care about any of these people. Maybe Portman's character a little, since she was the most naive, but really, they aren't likable or sympathetic in the least. But I'd say it's worth seeing, and for what it's worth, my girlfriend seemed to love it.