Comments on: Film review – My Year Without Sex (2009) http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2009/05/16/film-review-my-year-without-sex-2009/ Film reviews, criticism and discussion by Thomas Caldwell Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas Caldwell http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2009/05/16/film-review-my-year-without-sex-2009/#comment-702 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:08:33 +0000 http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/?p=1953#comment-702 I reckon you’re spot on with the micro/macro thing Lynden. It’s a film that doesn’t hang together as a whole but is instead a series of beautifully nuanced moments.

]]> By: lynden barber http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2009/05/16/film-review-my-year-without-sex-2009/#comment-701 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:52:54 +0000 http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/?p=1953#comment-701 I think you’re right about the episodic nature. My feeling is that on a scene-by-scene, micro level, the film is beautifully written and observed.

But on an overall, macro level, the script is not very well structured in dramatic and narrative terms.

Emotionally it’s too much on the same level, whatever Watt’s intention. There’s an overall flatness to the experience, no sense of build, of moments of intensity relieved by other moments of repose.

Eg. we’re meant to believe that at one point Horler’s character sinks into depression – but without the chapter titles telling us this I would have had little idea. She seems to get a bit downbeat and then she recovers. No real pain, too much on the surface.

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