Friday 24 June 2005

Open Hearts (2002)

This Danish film was supposedly made under the strict Dogme conventions so I was  somewhat surprised to see the flashy abstract camerawork that bookended the story. While the movie held my attention, thinking about it in retrospect I feel that it was a singularly unpleasant film.  It concerns a young woman whose fiance is disabled in a car accident and how she takes up with the doctor-husband of the woman who ran him over.  By the end four lives have been ruined and there is little indication as to what will eventually become of them.  I like my endings a little more satisfying.

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