Ewan McGregor gets to do a lot of shagging in this film. And smoke loads of fags. The shagging and the smoking seem synonymous of joyless addiction.
He’s a bit too smooth. Darker and dirtier and more dangerous would have interested me more.
Tilda Swinton does her gaunt, bony-lipped, austere, androgyny thing.
Ewan has to keep poking her. For something to do. When he’s not smoking his fags or reading books, his cock comes out.
European Art House with a twist of existential ennui – that’s what you might think you were watching.
But it would have been better with riskier casting.
Cus Ewan and Tilda are ok but…..
And the directing is ok but…
It’s all cock and no balls….
Dir: David Mackenzie, Scotland
5.5/10
