The film is hard to review in that it started out as a theatrical piece, and maybe should have stayed on the stage, although I can't imagine it doing much more there than on film. I found myself several times thinking, "Why is this even happening?"
The acting is top-notch from both actors. The cinematography is properly moody and "accurate" for what's happening on screen, but there is still something missing. That could either be the story or the script. The story itself is pretty simple, yet it is the storyline itself that I most reacted with the "Why is this even happening?" from before. There is nothing sincere about the contrivance of how these two people stay together. There are several points in the process that they could have split apart, and yet they don't. And that's more for one character than the other. One seems to want to recreate a failed relationship from the past, and the other is, for some reason never fully explained, attracted to the other. It all seems very simple, yet it's unbelievable in its execution, and because of that, I never forgot I was watching a movie.
If an audience is to suspend their disbelief for the 100-minute run time, there has to be something given to the audience to achieve that, and there really isn't. I sat in an attitude of disbelief throughout the entire thing. On top of that, the place we end up in is a very long and winding road that should not have led where it did because it sort of comes out of nowhere, and the main premise (storyline) is never really explained. Don't get me wrong, it's not one of those films that just ends, but this one ends, and you're sort of glad it's over. Nothing learned. No real effect that we get to see. I can say to watch it once if you have nothing better to watch, but you'll only want to watch it once.
