TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

paul2001sw-1 Hampsted Heath, one of London's greenest lungs, is well known as a place for illicit sexual encounters (mostly featuring gay men); and becomes the setting for this series of vignettes about interacting couples. It's a nice idea, with the diversity of pairings reflecting the diversity of the modern city; but unfortunately, every couple seems to have been chosen to be explicitly emblematic, no-one feels truly individual and the dialogue has the feel of a first script, written by someone who understands what the words must do, but isn't yet quite capable of writing them. There's the odd amusing moment here but that's all; the leads are played by a gallery of familiar British character actors, all of whom have had meatier roles elsewhere.

jodro I watched this movie recently, spurred on by the positive reviews here, that seemed to be written by folk who, like me, don't like the cynical ways of the world, and with that of many modern movies. Sadly I was hugely disappointed. The by-numbers script appeared to be written by a movie school student, with endless, grating smart-alec dialogue. The characters appeared to be continuously trying to outsmart each other with the next clever quip, and not only do people not talk like that in real life, it also made a dearth of likable characters. This could work if the characters or dialogue are genuinely interesting, but both are rather boring. The only flicker of interest could be found in the dialogue of the elderly couple, but even that was set up with a rather far-fetched back story. Plus there were a few other cheap plot twists that left me feeling cheated. The movie is reasonably well-acted, despite the shortcomings of the script, and the scenery is very nice, but in the end it comes across as pointless and vacuous yuppie-fare.

Berengaria0309 I loved this movie so much I bought the DVD. It's a gem. I'm not surprised a lot of the actors did this film for almost no money - the script is that good.You can make an analogy to books - this is not a novel but a book of short stories. I personally love short stories - you can almost always flesh out the characters in your imagination and make your own ending. I thought this movie was brilliant - great script and absolutely superb acting. It was a joy to watch from start to finish. This is what acting is all about, this is what movies should be about - not blue screens, endless explosions and CGI characters.

wreeve If you are a fan of Hampstead Heath (of the wholesome variety) then this is a great film. It features lots of different areas of the Heath and is very affectionately done. The Heath is the star of the film and is showing her age beautifully. Unlike Notting Hill, the film is faithful to the Heath and shows it as it really is. Pleasingly it didn't feature my absolute favourite bit of the Heath, which nobody knows about, and I am certainly not about to mention here.Alternatively, if you are a fan of good scripts, with every line worth savouring, then you will you enjoy this. If you are looking for a film about sex then this is not your film. Sorry!