Interesting idea, poor development

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2016)

Jorge Luis Borges once said, comparing the short stories to novels: "The essential advantage I see in it is that the short story can be taken in at a single glance... It's possible for everything to be essential, or more or less essential, or — shall we say — appear to be essential, in a short story."
This movie is directly opposite to this. Not only it is annoyingly and exhaustingly long, but it also treats the audience as people with absolutely ZERO sense of imagination. So, instead of giving the audience just a glimpse or two of "look, this here happened, but instead of this here, if other choices were made, that over there might have happened" - the movie takes us STEP BY STEP, each step iterating back and forth, into EACH AND EVERY possible scenario.
I liked the first half of the movie, then it just went on and beyond this "possible scenarios". If the movie was half as long, I'd have given it 6, maybe even 7 stars.
OK, not 7 stars, I just remembered that it has the most uninventive soundtrack ever. "Playing safe" is the best description of music choices here. I thought Faure's Pavane is going to wash out forever, that many times it was played in this movie.