Is the film that bad? No, actually not.
What is the film about?
O.k. This movie is about a man, a film director who makes a movie with two main actors.
These two main actors, a man and a woman have been a couple, more or lesson and play a couple in the story of the movie.
A couple on a point of no return, because the women became religious and the man stayed where they have started. He still is on drugs and alcohol and Rock'n Roll. So they try to figure out how to do now. As it is, the man can't understand his wife and wants everything back as it was.
Harvey Keitel plays the director and the film shows how he struggles to finish it, because the man who plays a drug addicted husband is on drugs itself. Then the wife playing actress on one hand tries to stay with him together, on the other hand she is separating from him and takes her own life and that means she does not know, not really know what to do. She is unsure, but plays the game in film business.
Then as this is not enough she sleeps with the director, which will be the fall of his own marriage.
So this movie shows the life and fiction couples and a film in a film, but also it shows the dark side of the film business and celebrity live.
Abel Ferrara uses the elements of drama, uses the fact that pictures can also show different between film and film reality of the movie and he uses fiction and ties a knot with all the stories he is telling, but such a knot that the real actors have more and more the problem to find the difference between their own life and the roles they play. Then the words the actors use are clearly though as a critic to Hollywood.
The movie itself is more a silence talking. Going from the slow start to the big drama at the end, although the drama is to find already on the way.
What more to say? The actress who plays the women in an anti Hollywood movie is Madonna.
Most of you will now think she is a bad actress, but actually she is not that bad, neither a very good one, but her problem was always she herself, she was always to big as a star the most time for her roles.
Yes, the first two or three minutes you may still think this is a women putting in a movie. That women! But then you will see, that she fades as Madonna and the longer the movie goes the more you forget who is playing this religious wife.
When the end of the film had arrived and you start to read the names, you just think: "What?, How!?".
So once again I will recommend to try a movie you maybe never thought of watching.
LOVE & LIGHT
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