Friday, June 18, 2010

Lady With the Dog




A movie version of a Chekhov short story? How irresistible a concept. However, I couldn't watch more than fifteen minutes or so. Chekhov lets his situations and characters speak for themselves, and if the ending result is bleak, so be it--and I think the result is always much more complex than simply bleak. The Bleakness was turned up to high right from the start and it felt somewhat root-canal-like, not that I've ever had root-canal surgery.
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