The Trouble With Men and Women doesn't illuminate anything, including the compulsion among some filmmakers to recycle the hoariest romantic situations, in the presumed hope that a charming cast might save the day.
Although the setting of this tiny, well-acted movie is contemporary London, it could be any European or American city where people mate and hope for the best.
Yet another dreary romance drama that's redundant, tedious, and often too vapid to be taken seriously when focusing on one dimensional cardboard cutouts we're told we have to care about...
Fisher's characters often turn to the likes of Voltaire to make their point about the ways of the heart and the world, but it's smart enough on its own terms. It's sweet and well done, and carries a slight air of the nouvelle vague.
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