How would your life be different if an angel took interest in you and your passions, your desires?
Not that different apparently, except maybe you'd get involved in a gay relationship with said angel.
There were bits of brilliance, but overall, this movie is a lot of failure and very little success.
Things they did well:
- casting, the angel is creepy and androgynous, Sobran is a convincing, passionate wine maker, and many of the supporting roles are well done.
- some of the reveals about the angel were interesting
- ah... nothing else I can think of...
Things they did badly:
- While I'm a fan of Keisha Castle Hughes, I thought she was one of the weaker casts and was out of place the entire time
- The sex scenes were incredibly random. Rather than have a conversation, Sobran would just flip over, climb on top and pump away - not very sexy at all
- I kept expecting the angel's wings to just fall off
- The "sex scene" between Sobran and the angle was just dumb
- there is always the feeling that if the camera panned just 1 cm to the right or left, you would see some stage hand picking his nose. It felt quite shallow and fragile the entire time.
The most telling sign that this movie was dull? I kept wandering off to the kitchen for something to eat or drink without bothering to pause it. I sat through all of "Sunshine" with Ralph Fiennes. Believe me, I have patience.
I feel bad for Elizabeth Knox, the Wellington writer who wrote the original novel. She can't have been happy with this effort.
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I'm surprised you chose to watch this. I wouldn't have thought it would have appealed to you. It definitely didn't appeal to me (but then, the book didn't either).
It was Una's choice, but hey - I'm not just a titanium and dinosaurs movie guy - I can watch anything that is good.
Una didn't like it either by the way.
I hear that the book is much better and I am somewhat interested in reading it. It might be an interesting take on religion actually and I'm always up for that.
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