MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
amirborgheie
i think this movie is so fuzzy and vague. i, personally detest the woman that has a beautiful face but with a black heart full of lie, just using man with a simple and decent love for attaining money and run away . you can't sympathy with the woman but so sympathetic about man and beautiful love of the man. a kind of unreality in going in and out of reality .it is far to believe that kind of story in real. the director do abstinence from using pornographic images . we can say it is not a film with hidden strings that catch the view of watcher . Sonia is pretty but we can say is without that warm which is needed for this film. i think the man is more better actor than the lead character Sonia. the atmosphere of the film is good but in total it is not a great and adorable movie.
Rockwell_Cronenberg
The Double Hour is a very interesting film. One of those rare pictures in which every scene counts. It's hard to review it without spoiling anything, since a lot of it's brilliance lays in a very surreal and terrifying sequence of events. The film is a lot of things; a twisted thriller, a unique and intense romance and a character study of two different individuals who find exactly what they need in each other. It works on every level that it attains towards, thanks primarily to a very intelligent script and superb performances from Filippo Timi and especially Kseniya Rappoport. The film has a lot of twists and a lot of, "what the hell is happening?" scenes, but thanks to the script it never gets too far ahead of the audience. It's easy to stick with, while still being intellectually stimulating. I wasn't bored for a second, from the huge shock of the opening scene until the interesting final one. There's a lot of great aspects that are involved throughout, the film really knows how to give it's two main characters some very emotional and enlightening arcs. They both go through a world of emotional distress and in the end they are completely changed while remaining in the same basic place that they started off. It asks a lot of questions and leaves the audience to debate them long after the film is over. Can you ever truly trust someone? What is the nature of revenge? How do you move past losing a loved one? There are many more and the film keeps you guessing all the way through. Tons of twists, great characters and interesting moves from a structural standpoint. It's a very unique film and a very fantastic one.
Quietb-1
Rappaport gives a good performance and she is easy to watch. She looks like a foreign film star not a chambermaid.The subtitles are a problem. They are often white script over a white background and impossible to read. Scary moments are complete with a loud annoying music score.Who was that first girl out the window and why? The robbery was so well planned and choreographed, seems like the clever thieves could have handled one security guard without the convoluted charade that sets up the entire movie.The movie has been around since 2009 so it unlikely it will be in a theater near you soon. You're more likely to catch it on cable or DVD. If you watch it tired you are likely to dose off. A couple of good twists, but a major cop-out story device makes this unsatisfying.
aharmas
It seems we have to get out of the States to see Noir cinema again, to be able to get that corrosive and disturbing feeling that appears to be the essence of a good mystery. In a world populated by individuals with lives that are full of mystery and characters flaws. It is a requirement of good film noir that no one is perfect. This become painfully obvious from the first frames, as we observe how even love might never be anything but flawed, feeble attempts at meeting the right person.The two main characters are introduced in a club where simple dates, relationships might develop. It's because of the director's sure hand, the writer's clever development of the story, and primarily an amazing set of lead performers that don't mind being led in impossible directions as we unravels the mystery.Two souls find love in the unlikeliest of places. They get to know each hesitantly. In a very ironic twist, lives are destroyed, literally and psychologically. This even before the end of the first act, when before mysteries are revealed, there is much to learn and try to understand.What are we witness to? a clueless group of people who might or not be involved some organized group, or is it just someone's hyperactive activity? Or is it just an old-fashioned ghost story? We take the same twisting turns in the movie we are watching. We pick a favorite, and we hope she or he is not involved with the masterminds who orchestra the murder of a policeman.It is challenging, frustrating, and a bit long, it keeps us watching, and we haven't seen this kind of pull in a movie for a long time.
