It's such a pity because in the first act it has everything: a cleverly paced and pointed dramaturgy, gorgous casting and acting, great cinematography and production, a natural feeling coming close to Ira Sach or Andrew Haigh. But soon after opening the christmas envelope, there's hardly any of its engagingness left.
It's not the dramatic turn expected by the title's "Grief", it's the masochism of sitting through the annoying lack of the "Good" in the ensuing cold-blooded emotional rampage. Quickly Mark, the main character of Emmy-winning actor-author-director Dan Levy, turns into a dispicable scemer, hurting his committed best friend, Himesh Patel's sweet Thomas, and being bested by their uncomitted third, Sophie, an unnervingly self-inflicting sufferer played by Ruth Negga.
The upper-middle-class setting in London and Paris makes the estranged and egocentric Millenials look good, of course, but its entitlement surmounts to nothing else but karaoke, ferris wheels and too much boring walk-and-talk, too much distance, too much disregard, too much narcissism, too little to care for.
Our watch group of four queer activists and former film festival team members were all disappointed, frustrated even, found the dialogues cringey, the story irratic, unengaging and boring, the characters Mark and Sophie unbearable.
It's not the dramatic turn expected by the title's "Grief", it's the masochism of sitting through the annoying lack of the "Good" in the ensuing cold-blooded emotional rampage. Quickly Mark, the main character of Emmy-winning actor-author-director Dan Levy, turns into a dispicable scemer, hurting his committed best friend, Himesh Patel's sweet Thomas, and being bested by their uncomitted third, Sophie, an unnervingly self-inflicting sufferer played by Ruth Negga.
The upper-middle-class setting in London and Paris makes the estranged and egocentric Millenials look good, of course, but its entitlement surmounts to nothing else but karaoke, ferris wheels and too much boring walk-and-talk, too much distance, too much disregard, too much narcissism, too little to care for.
Our watch group of four queer activists and former film festival team members were all disappointed, frustrated even, found the dialogues cringey, the story irratic, unengaging and boring, the characters Mark and Sophie unbearable.
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