They've got to be kidding!...

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2003)

It still amazes me how people can be so easily fooled with some Europeanish "mystery" ingredients in a film, by making them truly believe the movie is "artful", good, whatever. OK, I am a professional pianist/composer/arranger (jazz-oriented, mostly, TV music, studio orchestras backing up singers, jazz player with my quintet).
Some movies I consider very good: "To Kill a Mockingbird"; 12 Angry Men; Usual Suspects; Memento; The Sleepers; Strange Days; The Fight Club; Strangers On A Train; Come on! I was shocked to find that everything I found just terribly awful in this film has been nominated (???) to awards: Utterly non-believable dialogue; exasperated slowliness (please, don't tell me it was on purpose!!!); awful music score (which, BTW, disappears quite a lot which makes it "Europeanish"); gratuitious rather long softcore Lesbian sex scenes; awful acting; laughable characters; confusion, confusion, confusion (get sober, Lynch!). If I have to choose what was the worst, I would say the script...but then, script and directing are so indivisible (same person) it is hard to make a choice on either one. SIMPLY FORGET THIS TITLE and step ahead to something more valuable for your time and spiritual and aesthetic life.