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I found it a great masochistic experience.
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Hes an overbearing guy, invasive when he thinks hes being loving.
As he talks, she stares ahead in near catatonia, the last straw of their relationship quietly breaking.
How do women endure it?
DoesLove After Lovesound like fun?
(Mendelsohn co-wroteLove After Love.)
The opening is a brilliant piece of writing.
Sitting across from his mother, whos in a window seat, Nicholas says, What was the question?
Suzanne laughs and he goes on, haltingly, I mean … Whats happy?
The film features not one but two nightmarish dinner scenes.
But Harbaugh pulls something miraculous out of his hat.
Chris turns out to be pretty amazing.
He also has an outlet to work through his grief that Nicholas doesnt.
But Rebecca is too smart not to recoil.
Also, shes not a masochist.
(The writers could have helped.)
Its fun to see a performance so revelatory it takes the sting out of the general horribleness.
