Review of Regrets (2009) by Dickie L — 03 Nov 2009

You can never quite guess where Kahn's films are heading, and this latest is once again full of very real hiccups... Kahn is very good on the financial and psychological cost of adultery: the way it fosters a dogged obsession the architect would be better off channeling into his maquettes.

I have to confess I found "Regrets" a little too scrupulously honest for its own dramatic good about the way affairs drag on and/or peter out, offering no particular benefit to anyone, either participant or onlooker; don't be surprised if, having been hooked, you spend the final thirty minutes wanting to bash these characters' heads together until they see sense.

Yet in a film of endlessly rushed assignations - there's some underlying comedy in the manner the lovers only ever meet up when one or another has a train to catch or an appointment to keep - it seems right Kahn should linger over his droll punchline: three little words that, if spoken many years before, could have saved these people a whole lot of grief.