Last Night, from Iranian-American writer-director Massy Tadjedin, is a film with as much artistic integrity as an IKEA catalogue. It is the glossy story of four impossibly beautiful people, living unreasonably fabulous lives in preposterously huge loft apartments in New York’s Upper East Side. Wedded couple Joanna and Michael, played by Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington, spend a day and a half wrestling with doubts over their hasty post-university marriage, while Eva Mendes and Guillaume Canet do their best to knowingly tempt them into infidelity.
Eva was somewhat annoyed he'd showed up wearing the same dress |
The film also drags, with Tadjedin spending far too much time with lingering shots of the characters suffering from ennui and this annoyingly banal bourgeois boredom only alienates the audience further from the heart of the story. In comparison, February’s Blue Valentine, another story of dissolving marriage, spoke volumes on the bitter heartache of separation as a couple’s unity was put to the test. Last Night, on the other hand, never even finds its voice.
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