Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: Ed Blum
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville, Sophie Okonedo, Douglas Hodge, Polly Walker
Synopsis:
Couples of differing ages, gender persuasions and stages in their respective relationships are caught in conversation on Hampstead Heath one summer's afternoon.
Review:
A film which presumably attempts to say something about love relationships in contemporary Britain while striving to avoid banality at all costs accordingly opts for a quirky TV comedy approach built on pain, coincidence, embarrassment or the downright bizarre. The results are uneven at best, at worst wilful and self-conscious. The exercise is perhaps destined for failure: flitting around apparently at random to show us the infinite variety of things while squeezing in the odd rueful or hopeful comment on life is bound to resort to its own form of stereotyping at times, and at others appear divorced from reality.
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: Ed Blum
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville, Sophie Okonedo, Douglas Hodge, Polly Walker
Synopsis:
Couples of differing ages, gender persuasions and stages in their respective relationships are caught in conversation on Hampstead Heath one summer's afternoon.
Review:
A film which presumably attempts to say something about love relationships in contemporary Britain while striving to avoid banality at all costs accordingly opts for a quirky TV comedy approach built on pain, coincidence, embarrassment or the downright bizarre. The results are uneven at best, at worst wilful and self-conscious. The exercise is perhaps destined for failure: flitting around apparently at random to show us the infinite variety of things while squeezing in the odd rueful or hopeful comment on life is bound to resort to its own form of stereotyping at times, and at others appear divorced from reality.
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: Ed Blum
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville, Sophie Okonedo, Douglas Hodge, Polly Walker
Synopsis:
Couples of differing ages, gender persuasions and stages in their respective relationships are caught in conversation on Hampstead Heath one summer's afternoon.
Review:
A film which presumably attempts to say something about love relationships in contemporary Britain while striving to avoid banality at all costs accordingly opts for a quirky TV comedy approach built on pain, coincidence, embarrassment or the downright bizarre. The results are uneven at best, at worst wilful and self-conscious. The exercise is perhaps destined for failure: flitting around apparently at random to show us the infinite variety of things while squeezing in the odd rueful or hopeful comment on life is bound to resort to its own form of stereotyping at times, and at others appear divorced from reality.