Last Night [Blu-ray]
Last Night [Blu-ray]
Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes and Guillaume Canet join forces in this tantalizing and emotionally powerful story of trust, lust and deception. Michael (Worthington) and Joanna Reed (Knightley) appear to have it all. Young and successful, they’re a married couple who share a comfortable and seemingly perfect life. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague (Mendes) and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life (Canet), each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
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Compelling Study of Romantic Temptation,
LAST NIGHT, directed by Massy Tadjedin, stars Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington (Avatar, Clash of the Titans) as an attractive married couple living in an upscale Soho flat in New York who struggle with the issue of temptation. The film opens with Joanna (Knightley) and Michael (Worthington) attending a party thrown by the latter’s boss during which Joanna glimpses a possibly flirtatious moment between her husband and his sexy new colleague, Laura (Eva Mendes). This observation causes sufficient doubt in Joanna’s mind to cause her to doubt her husband’s faithfulness, which suspicions she expresses when they return home later that night. Michael denies that he is having an affair although Joanna still has lingering doubts when Michael leaves on a business trip the next morning.
When she goes out for a coffee, Joanna is spotted by her former French lover, Alex (Guillaume Canet), who is in New York to meet his American publisher and is still very much in love with her even though they haven’t seen each other in two years. Alex invites Joanna out to dinner and the two ex-lovers find themselves reviving old feelings which could well threaten her seemingly comfortable marriage. Meanwhile, away in Philadelphia to close a property deal, Michael finds himself having drinks alone with Laura, who makes no secret of her romantic interest in him.
« It’s very thought-provoking when it comes to the subject of infidelity and how one reacts to it, » said Knightley, 25, about the film. « It’s one of the hardest issues that any couple faces and how each deals with it and reacts to and how they survive it – or not! What I love about this film was that it doesn’t try to take a hard moral line on the issue and it’s left to the audience to decide whether or not anyone has behaved appallingly or immorally. Human relationships are always going to be complicated in that sense! »
LAST NIGHT is a beautifully photographed, brilliantly written study of modern relationships with acute insight into familiar issues that all couples, married or not, must face. Keira Knightley gives the most mature and layered performance of her career, finally playing a mature woman struggling with issues of identity and ambition. The film is largely centered around her portrayal of Joanna, which is engaging, complex, and finely drawn. Certainly, Knightley’s chemistry with French actor/director Guillaume Canet is far more combustible than anything we see between Worthington and Mendes’ characters.
Griffin Dunne, rarely seen on screen these days, also contributes an excellent performance as Alex’s charismatic and provocative publisher.
Anyone fascinated by the state of modern romance would do well to watch this clever and sensitive film which was unfortunately given a shoddy release in U.S. cinemas despite receiving highly favourable reviews. Had this film received even a modest amount of publicity, it could well have turned into a major art house hit. As it stands, however, this is the ideal film to watch on a Friday or Saturday evening on DVD with a lover or close friends on hand to debate the many interesting points about fidelity and flirtation raised by the film.
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|A grown-up, less in your face version of “Closer”. Emotionally powerful movie that will leave you wanting more. Great. I say B+,
“What I wouldn’t give to have tired of you.” After a party makes her feel uneasy Joanna (Knightley) thinks that her husband Michael (Worthington) is cheating on her. The next day he leaves on a business trip, with the women (Eva Mendes). The same day Joanna runs into her past love and spends time with him. Both are tempted to do what they shouldn’t. This is a movie that you have to let form. The first half hour or so is a little slow, but then it really starts to take shape and the ending will leave you wanting more. Being a man, this is not usually the type of movie that I enjoy, but I really did like this one. I would call this a more subdued version of “Closer”, much less overt sex and much more subtle love. Much like “Closer” you are pulled back and forth between who you like and who you don’t. Who is right and who is wrong. Who you want to root for, and who you shouldn’t. Either way this is a very emotionally powerful movie that will leave you wishing there was more. Overall, I surprisingly liked this movie a lot. This is a very emotional movie that will leave you thinking. That’s a good thing. I give it a B+.
Would I watch again? – I actually think I might.
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Excellent movie about a young couple who seem to have it all until temptation rears its ugly head! I was hoping against hope that an infidelity would not take place and they could remain intact! It also raises the question of, which is worse actual physical infidelity, or a yearning for a past love. The leads acted well and of course were beautiful!
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