A decent story spoiled by en erratic script going unnecessarily to and fro with lines hinting but not saying, a director in love with still life and pauses (to make an Antonioni it takes an Antonioni), an over-acting actress (Maggie Gyllenhaal must think she is sort of an Eleonora Duse, always posing and sniffing and grimacing). Even the good ones, like Stephen Rea, are compelled to stay frozen all the time pretending they are the most intelligent people in the world. Andrew Buchan (Ephra Stein) is cornered into an absurd love story with the nowadays usual and gratuitous sex sessions. Alltogather very very boring, the only plausible thing is that almost everybody is bad or stupid, quite similar, even though unwillingly, to real life.
Review of The Honorable Woman
