Review of Charlie Casanova (2010) by The D — 24 Oct 2012

Charlie Casanova is a particularly difficult film to bare let alone review. It's very hard to know what the writer/director Terry McMahon is trying to do other than alienate his audience.

Charlie is a successful business man attending a conference along with his wife & two other couples.

He's an arrogant self righteous man but unbeknownst to his companions he is going under in more ways than one. He briefly comes away from the hotel to pick up cigarette papers, it's at this point he knocks over a woman but rather than stopping he drives on. As he decides the woman was working class he feels the world to be a better place without her. Charlie looks down on the working classes and regularly takes the chance to spit upon them. This is highlighted when he tries his hand at stand up comedy.

There's all sorts of swordid interchanges between this six main players but all it seems to do is slag varying things off, women, classes and so forth. It's just hard work to stay interested or see Charlie as any sort of anti-hero. The films ending, I don't mind saying, I didn't follow, anyone wanting to educate me feel free.

It's also difficult to rate the film with stars as I previously stated the films intent is hugely unclear from start to finish. I gave the film two stars as if it meant to annoy me then it did a bit but not enough to care.