Sunday, December 28, 2008

Friends with Money (2006)

Several middle-aged couples are shown with their particular traits and the problems they face in their lives; the odd one out in this group is a single woman who has quit her teaching job to work as a maid.

An interesting updating of the tale of Cinderella, with focus being distributed among its various characters. It avoids dullness with intelligent set-pieces, within which we glimpse a morally decadent society where ordinary civilized acts such as demanding others to respect a store queue are frowned upon, and obsessing over other people's sexuality seems to be a national pastime.

Rating: 57

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