Unpleasant

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2019)

Never before have I found a multiple-award-winning and highly nominated film so painful. Although the sets were wonderful and the acting of the three female leads was excellent, the characters were certainly not people you would want to spend any time with or even know anything about. The repetitive sections of the soundtrack were not music but noise, and were nothing less than irritating. The characters were unpleasant, the sound unpleasant, the story unpleasant -- even if it's based on some modicum of historic truth, it is not a tale worth learning about. In the middle of it, I felt the director was just indulging his whims, and as it dragged on far too long, I lay the blame solely at his feet. The film was a waste of time and I left angry. It was just unpleasant.