Love for Share – 2 stars
My friends and I have learned something the hard way: avoid triptychs. Never watch a movie with three stories in it. They all suck, or are mediocre at best (cf. Three Needles, Three Times). I’m not talking about movies telling multiple concurrent stories in general, but movies with three stories specifically—two stories is fine (Chungking Express), five stories is fine (Do Over)—are no good. Had we known that this movie had three stories, we wouldn’t have bought tickets. The three stories in this film were only very superficially tied together, and in mostly trivial or nonsensical ways. What’s more, two of the three were dumb. Only the first of the three was any good, and given my inevitable bad luck, I missed the first fifteen minutes of it. Sigh.
This movie was doubly disappointing, having seen it so soon after Do Over, which had a similar M.O., but was executed infinitely better. Not a great way to end the film festival, but overall I had a very good experience: I liked about 3/4 of the movies we saw.
the emotional pumpkin » Heinously late, but said:
[...] of the other lessons we’ve learned through bitter experience is this: never watch a triptych. Anything with three stories sucks. This wasn’t nearly as bad as Love for Share or 3 Needles, [...]
May 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pm