Review of Decision to Leave (2022) by Mauro_Lanari — 09 Jun 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

To innovate the everlasting theme of impossible love, is it enough to amalgamate it with a direction inspired by anime and with a Hitchcockian police plot ("Vertigo")? I have the impression that, if I'll remember the film, it will be for the considerable efforts of aesthetic originality and not for the rather latent emotions (femme fatale/dark lady and final scene included): the former do not reinforce the latter, rather they weaken them, perhaps because the complexity of the subject is discovering impossible to manage or even just to describe (drama, thriller, neo-noir, romance, melo, crime, mystery, etc.). The script void between the first and second parts and a disarming verbosity remain unjustified.