MINI REVIEWS: THAT IS ALL THEY DESERVE: TAKE THIS WALTZ, A BURNING HOT SUMMER

“Take This Waltz” (previously reviewed 5/27/12), did not improve with a second viewing. Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen star as a couple (“Margot”,  “Lou”) so devoted to each other that their endearments are flavored with untoward, torturous sentiments. She is aimless, rootless, devoid of ambition; he cooks and writes about chicken for a living. Enter Luke Kirby (“Daniel”) as the distraction that temporarily stimulates the seemingly drugged, comatose Margot. Many might recognize these doomed couples but with alacrity and insight flee their negative energy.

ONE & 1/2 STARS!

“ A Burning Hot Summer”  a French film starring the sensually titillating Monica Bullucci as “Angele” an actor married to “Frederic” (Louis Garrel) a mediocre, dissipated artist; chemistry between the two is neither “hot” nor “burning”, just boring. Frederick invites his best friend “Paul” (Jerome Robart) and his partner “Elizabeth” (Celine Sallette) to spend the summer with him and Angele; instead of the plot thickening it is diluted, thinned in trying tedium and triteness. I gleefully exited into a real and much more viable “burning hot summer”, preferring the heat to this vapid scenario; questioning, puzzling why this film was ever made?

ONE & 1/2 STARS!

For Now………..Peneflix