Movie Update

With recent viewings of Poseidon and Take the Lead, the Wenzel offices haven't exactly been your local art house theatre, lately. However we did manage an excursion to go see The Last Kiss, a movie about relationships that questions the very feasibility of relationships in late twentysomethings (or more specifically, twentysomething men). Zach Braff's acting shows up as two-dimensional, but Casey Affleck steals it for the younger set. The real gem here is the work between Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner, who appear as the parents of Baff's girlfriend, played by Jacinda Barrett and are having marital problems of there own. Many of us found The Last Kiss is a difficult film to watch, and not necessarily because the acting was bad, but rather it hit too close to the bone. It does not help matters that the movie offers no firm resolution, nor a happy ending. Some characters resolve to get back together, others don't, and some we're not sure about. We're currently attempting to track down the original Italian film, L'Ultimo Baccio, to see how these character types manifest.

Another film that we are trying to track down is The Proposition, written by Nick Cave and starring Guy Pearce. Yet another film delving it the myths an archetypes of Australian history, Cave as earned some praise for himself as a screenwriter with this gritty western.