Too Much Left Unsaid

Rating: 5/10 (25 February 2019)

I don't know if it was the language barrier but I had a difficult time following this movie. I couldn't tell where any of the character's motivations were coming from other than that they were lustfully attracted to each other. I understand that the political climate of the time dictated the lives of the people in the film but I couldn't always tell why it was making people do what they were doing. I'm usually one to appreciate subtlety in a film, especially when concerning changes in the background of it. But, with Cold War I feel that some nuanced explanation of events could have been useful. I was particularly frustrated at the very end of the movie when I had been thinking the whole time that the film was just too subtle for me to follow properly only for it to hit me with one of the most ham-fisted metaphors I can remember to close the movie. Maybe that was a play on how secretive the film had been and, if so, its charm was lost on me. I did enjoy the music and thought the two leads did a good job.