Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Junichi Suzuki directs the Japanese romantic melodrama Lonely Affair of the Heart, along the same lines as his tearjerker Remembering the Cosmos. Filmed in black-and-white and color, this story focuses on Orie (Rumi Sakakibara), a middle-aged woman trapped in a boring marriage to the older Shiraki (Masakane Yonekura). She is possibly saved from her misery when a young stranger (Kazuya Takahashi) shows up at her house and she begins fantasizing about him. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Sep 27, 2002 Wide
Nov 19, 2002
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)
A handsome, intelligent film of rigorous austerity; unfortunately, for all its seriousness of purpose and fine performances, it's also a boring film about boring people.
[M]ore effective as an intellectual exercise than as an emotionally involving film.
It's an intriguing effort.
Overwrought, slow, and portentous, with confusing surreal elements and a narrative time scheme that's impossible to keep track of.
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