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Monday, 22 July 2013

BLUE VALENTINE [2010]

Director Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine is about the strength of new love and how fragile it can become with age.
Watching their love grow is so well done and realistic it makes watching it all fall apart quite a difficult and often uncomfortable experience.  It's well acted, starkly shot and wonderfully written even if it is a bit too bleak to want to revisit again.  We complain about the phoniness of silly rom-coms but do we really want them all to be like this?

3½ motel rooms of the future out of 5

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