Review of The Past (2013) by David Edelstein for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 05 Jan 2014
It’s absorbing for a long while, at least half its two-hour running time — an evocatively photographed soap opera with actors who are impossibly gorgeous and yet human-looking — but it goes on and on, piling on twists, adding devices so clunky they’d have embarrassed most nineteenth-century problem-dramatists, refusing to jell despite the actors’ prodigious suffering.
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This review of The Past (2013) was written by David Edelstein and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 05 Jan 2014.
The Past has generally received very positive reviews.
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