A light, modern classic

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2003)

The spainish director Pedro Almadobar is famous for would be proud. If you read my other reviews you'll understand how specious I find american culture to be. But HTLAG10DAYS succeeds where "Sabrina" failed a few years ago. Helmer, Donald Petrie obviously has studied Pedro and american comedies from 60s and with the help of famed producer Robert Evans - he's created a light, modern classic. The perfomances by Matt McConaughey and Kate Hudson are worthy of predecedors like Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. The plot was perfectly constructed to create the wonderful, calculated combustible ending. There is one outstanding weakness in this film and all American cinema, however. That is SEX. There is a dearth of honest Sexual Passion in American cinema. It is practically non-existent. And it is rather sad, actually. Indeed, that failure is what short circuits HTLAG10DAYS and will doom it to fade into Blockbuster oblivia.
But it will still be a light, modern classic. Good work.