What a Shame!

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2001)

I recently got this film out on video, and was surprised (after hearing much negative talk about it) to find myself enjoying it. It had the usual weird and wonderful hallmarks of a Kubrick film.
I enjoyed the minimalist style music, which accompanied the action, along with the more scene specific stuff (don't want to say more for fear of spoiling).
In my view the film was about long term relationships: how jealousy can create insecurities; which can lead people to play dangerous games in order to redress the balance.
Unfortunately, after a good start and a good build up of tension, this film simply stopped rather than ended. What a shame!
The way in which the finishing scenes lacked some special ingredient makes me question whether Kubrick was still around in the final moments of the film's production.
The film could have done with being several minutes longer, so that the points it made could have been delivered more slowly allowing the tension to be ease off less abruptly.