Three stories around the theme of marriage. (1) A businessman and his wife camp out in a hotel room because their house is being painted; the wife also wants to make it a celebration of their wedding anniversary, but the event becomes the catalyst for the husband's coming out in the open about an affair. (2) A Hollywood producer is passing by New York City and sets a hotel date with an old girlfriend from his hometown, who is now a married woman. (3) A bride-to-be locks herself in a hotel bathroom on the day of her wedding which is to be held on that same hotel. Her parents struggle to take her out of there.
This segmented film presents three different angles of wedlock. The first segment features a woman in her forties, the second one a woman in her thirties, and in the third one she is in her twenties. It works as an analysis of different stages in womanhood and also as an assessment of marriage in different decades of the 20th century. The script sports a great domain of dramatic technique, but this comes at the expense of naturalism. Everything is greatly exaggerated, and the characters are as annoying as they come, more so than one would find in any real-life person. Each line of dialogue struggles to outsmart the previous one; sometimes they succeed, and some times they painfully do not. I suspect that may become a little exhasperating for some viewers. The happy ending is simply one of those things that come across at once as strained and inevitable.
Rating: 44
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