This movie starts off promisingly enough. Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio flirt at a party and then we see them married with two kids. It's the 60s. He works a job he hates, she's miserable in suburbia. Then he has an affair and she coincidentially decides they should leave the dread suburbs behind and move to Paris. I thought this was an intriguing concept. A couple taking their family on such an unorthodox path.
But that's just a smoke screen to set up a long, tedious look at a failed marriage. They fight. They fuck other people. They fight some more. I yawn. They're great actors and Sam Mendes is a talented director, but this was not a good script. Scenes start with characters declaring a kind of thesis statement and then the arguments start. The speeches are too long and it all just seemed like a stage play.
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