Review of Lantana

Lantana (2001)
7/10
Sponsored by the Ministry for a Better Coupledom
3 August 2002
Coupledoom coupledull and coupleboom are on board of a ship. Where goes the ship?

About half a dozen couples are matched and mismatched during 2hrs-Lantana. With more fun this could have been a good plot for some TV-series. No way! This is damn serious. I can't believe some people can be so damn serious. Do they have so much time to spare?

Ok, I'll be serious for a while: Lantana was too much of a patchwork of coupledom situations to me. Encompassing all this is nothing really thrilling. Directing/editing/photography/score are average at best. I admire Geoffrey Rush; all the actresses were really good but... far too serious goes near fake and stiff. I mean a compilation is supposed to cater for all tastes, yet Lantana has been praised for being far from such market-writing practices. Originality doesn't necessary mean great movie (aahhh thou over-rated painful memento!). It doesn't help to be indulgent with this stuff just because it looks different from Hollywood's products. Apparently different is not surely more intelligent, but it definitely helps to save on brain activity to think that way.

12 million australopitheci rushed to see this? They seem to badly need a Ministry for a Better Coupledom out there.
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