Or, Vacuous Couples Prancing About. Only made it to one hour 26 despite best Endeavours (it's two hours three minutes). And this is why. It's not a movie in the conventional sense, more a series of arty, pretentious sequences loosely linked together into some kind of chronology, or 'story'.
Moody music. A flock of starlings. A little boy runs across the grass. Michael Fassbender caresses Rooney Mara's neck. A band plays. We see a leaf in the water. "I could not find a way to love him", she whispers. A sunset. Ryan Gosling caresses Rooney Mara's leg. A modern apartment in Austin, Texas, shot from high up. Natalie Portman laughs just as someone else laughs. "I couldn't find my heart," Ryan Gosling whispers. The music changes, the branch of a tree, a rock concert, a goat.
Photographed using some very wide lenses by Emmanuel Lubezki with some undeniably creative editing by Hank Corwin, Rehman Nizar Ali & Keith Fraase. All sorts of music in the soundtrack from Mahler and Ravel through to Bob Dylan.
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