In Paolo Sorrentinos magnificent but underwhelming drama,Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel are a pair of broken-down friends steeped in ennui and torpor during a spa break in SwitzerlandThis new film from the Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino is an entertaining but minor work, another of his angular, or intensely controlled comedies of manners,this one forever breaking into weird, new-realist tableaux of terrifying people in various states of undress. It’s the kind of stylishness that risks depleting substance and, or like his other English-language film This Must Be the Place (2011),it is eroded by Sorrentino’s weakness for rock star cameos. Just occasionally, it feels like a 124-minute Rolex commercial. But there is always such superb poise.
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Source: theguardian.com