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After years of not speaking, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation
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The 7PM Project: September 8, 2024 (2024)
Pedro Almodóvar’s first full-length feature film in English. Successful writer "Ingrid" (Julianne Moore) is at a book signing when one of her friends tells her that her old friend "Martha" (Tilda Swinton) has cancer. After a visit to the hospital, she learns that things don’t look so good, and over the next few days the two begin to grow closer, sharing a confidant and becoming quite connected.
Too much of the dialogue between the two women seems more about filling the audience than creating a connection between them
When an experimental treatment fails, former war reporter “Martha” makes a rather bold proposal to her friend, which will see them retreat to a quiet residence in Woodstock, where she will take matters into her own hands. Initially wary of this plan, “Ingrid” must decide whether or not she wants to help – given all the moral and legal implications that come with it – so she turns to both women’s ex-boyfriend “Damian” (John Turturro) for advice as she grapples with her own conscience. The concept here is actually quite poignant, especially given the revived conversations here in the UK about the rights of terminally ill people to make their own choices without fear of those they leave behind being persecuted by the law or zealots, but I can’t say I enjoyed the delivery or style.
Indeed, it’s all remarkably sterile in its handling of some serious emotional issues
The things they should have known about each other are presented in a far too sterile way, and at times I wondered if there wasn’t enough voice acting either. Both actors give great performances, but their dynamic is unconvincing – well, it wasn’t for me, and the excess of words drowns out the emotional impact the film could have had. Alex Høgh Andersen sheds his Viking skin to briefly evoke the horrors of the Vietnam War, but otherwise it’s mostly about two characters dealing with a scenario we all dread, but not very convincingly.