Okay, here's the premise: You're Unique; a beautiful actress who can actually ACT and you're NOT French. So what do you do, you focus on sixteen year old Jon Foster Dull As Ditchwater who has absolutely nothing going for him in the Potential Mate stakes and boff his brains out. As you're unlikely to do this in real life you need a motivation so we rummage around in the Delayed-Revelation department and come up with something that fits where it touches. The kid resembles one of your dead teenage sons and your estranged husband has 'given' him to you the way estranged husbands do; happens all the time. I have absolutely no problem with the acting of Bridges and Basinger. Jeff Bridges is arguably the most gifted American actor working in American movies despite what the pseuds will tell you about the journeyman De Niro and Basinger if not QUITE ready to go to the mat with Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Fanny Ardant et al is certainly fit to share a screen with any or all of them. So the acting isn't the problem it's just knowing when to laugh and/or when to cry so that in the end we do neither and settle for a shrug.
Review of The Door in the Floor
