The world must be full of despondent middle-aged husbands and hopeful, yet equally despondent young wives...

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2004)

for this movie to be so highly praised. Nice shooting and structure, subtle dialogue and acting, but you know, in the end, so what? Been there, done that. I think it will be interesting to see a few centuries from now how history records the way people so eagerly lapped up recent movies representing their entrapment in what has probably become an archaic and unnatural institution, marriage, i.e. American Beauty, i.e. In The Bedroom etc etc etc etc. Everybody gets married and then everybody ends up wanting to have an affair, but they don't go through with it, so they end up getting excited over movies like this. I'm not sure what it offers to them - Inspiration? Consolation? Whatever. 77/100