English Title: Summer Night in Town.
Synopsis: A couple on a one-night stand have a long talk after sex, about their pasts, personalities, and projects for the future -- might these include each other?
Appraisal: A man and a woman meet, say, in a bar, and decide to go to the apartment of one of them and have sex. And after sex, the film begins: it consists exclusively of a conversation between the two. This conversation is not supposed to be realistic, I guess; one does not behave like this in real life, and if they did, they wouldn't be talking like these two people talk. But one can interpret this conversation as symbolic of what goes on in their minds, the inner process that culminates in what is commonly referred to as falling in love. Said like that, it would appear as though this film is a work of genius. The actual experience of watching it, though, was less than satisfactory for me. I am not exactly sure why it was so, and maybe there was more than one reason. First, a film consisting exclusively of two people talking inside an apartment is bound to become tiresome eventually. Second, and probably more serious, these characters didn't get through to me -- maybe I don't buy the whole meet-have-sex-fall-in-love scheme; or maybe I found the poetic style of the dialogue to be a little too affected for a film. Or perhaps these are not characters at all but only abstractions, and I am simply too much of a philistine to appreciate it.
Rating: 31
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