September 20, 2007
I hate when people focus on sex instead of taking the ride along with the actors and the plot and THEN judging the entire movie, not only the sex. This movie suffered the same lame comments as "9 songs" did with the difference that this one survives every single stupid remark about "How graphic it is!"... in Winterbottom's film, the cinematography played a huge role along with the editing and the concerts scenes. The performances were great and the screenplay, as simple and tiny as it was, showed us what was the actually important thing about the film: the relationship between the two main characters, their painful love and their way to communicate through sex... However, in Cameron Mitchell's movie (shall we called it his masterpiece?), the screenplay goes way beyond relationships and sex: it deals with loneliness and frustration as nobody else does.
