Pretentious twaddle

Rating: 1/10 (16 September 2017)

Aronofsky has said that he wrote this film very quickly. It shows. The intriguing set-up: a blocked writer and his young wife are trying to create an artistic oasis for themselves, but are visited by random strangers, falls to pieces very quickly. Jennifer Lawrence is compelling, as always. In fact, each of the four main actors are solid and much of the movie is beautifully filmed,particularly the dizzying use of hand-held or close-up tracking cams. But the writing and plot are absolute garbage. Shockingly bad movie that will appeal to pretenders.