Well you can’t win ‘em all.
An ambitious attempt to align past and present narrative, that lacks a clear thematic thread between the two and suffers from just about the wankiest performance you will ever see from Sean Penn.
Catherine McCormack is Jean, a photographic journalist intending to unlock a mystery surrounding the unaliving of two Norwegians immigrants that occurred in the Isle of Shoals in 1873. In an attempt to mix business with, not so much pleasure but an indifferent relationship dynamic, Jean brings along her pretentious poet boyfie Penn, his bro Josh Lucas and bro’s gf (who obs has a serious thing for Penn) Elizabeth Hurley.
In the past the Norwegian mystery is played out with Sarah Polley as Marat, who is totes incestuously jealous of her sister in law Anethe (Vinessa Shaw).
Polley gives the most interesting performance in an otherwise slow, ponderous piece that has its head up it’s one arse for most of the runtime. There doesn’t seem to be one likeable character in the bunch, even Lucas who is affable is ludicrously clueless about Hurley’s intentions for Penn.
An extra half star for Hurley’s bewbs.
Well you can’t win ‘em all.
An ambitious attempt to align past and present narrative, that lacks a clear thematic thread between the two and suffers from just about the wankiest performance you will ever see from Sean Penn.
Catherine McCormack is Jean, a photographic journalist intending to unlock a mystery surrounding the unaliving of two Norwegians immigrants that occurred in the Isle of Shoals in 1873. In an attempt to mix business with, not so much pleasure but an indifferent relationship dynamic, Jean brings along her pretentious poet boyfie Penn, his bro Josh Lucas and bro’s gf (who obs has a serious thing for Penn) Elizabeth Hurley.
In the past the Norwegian mystery is played out with Sarah Polley as Marat, who is totes incestuously jealous of her sister in law Anethe (Vinessa Shaw).
Polley gives the most interesting performance in an otherwise slow, ponderous piece that has its head up it’s one arse for most of the runtime. There doesn’t seem to be one likeable character in the bunch, even Lucas who is affable is ludicrously clueless about Hurley’s intentions for Penn.
An extra half star for Hurley’s bewbs.
