By contrast, Rossum’s delightful performance may oblige you to doubt her Kimberly’s judgment but make you wish you could better understand her character and decisions. All you can say about Long’s performance is that he is completely persuasive as a guy you wouldn’t want to be stuck sitting next to on a long flight. In his mid-30s, Dell seems a bit old to be running the verbal routine he does without having refined it for effectiveness one could almost believe he’s just been released from captivity or an institution of some kind, so impervious is he to inter-personal niceties and social cues. The film accomplishes quite a bit visually and aurally on what was clearly a limited budget. That said, Esmail does succeed in creating an ambiance of palpable, if sometimes odd, romanticism, by virtue of Dell’s surging need and the story’s concentrated focus, as well as with atmospheric special effects (a meteor shower, double suns and other heightened natural phenomena), deliberately fanciful settings and an eclectic, smartly judged soundtrack featuring music by Daniel Hart. PHOTOS Best and Worst TV Dads: ‘Modern Family,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘The Simpsons’ Other than the fact that she can call the shots and he is obviously nuts about her, it’s hard to glean why she keeps Dell in her life as long as she does the film is so wrapped up in Dell’s maniacal need to speak, be heard and valued that Kimberly’s character gets short shrift despite sharing the screen the whole time. She may be neurotic, but not uncharmingly so. His relentless, domineering style certainly stems from insecurity there’s no question that Kimberly controls the relationship. If Dell were to go on like this with everyone he meets (he’s scarcely ever shown talking to anyone but Kimberly), he could never hold down a job or keep a friend it’s entirely possible he has neither. ![]() The Comet Movie Poster Brd Rssevold, Director. The guy definitely has something going for him, but no one ever taught him how to edit himself, or that women like to be asked about themselves and their views. Brd Rssevolds debut film is a sensitive drama whose soft tones paint a complex and subtle portrait. In the course of what are as often his virtual monologues as they are conversations, Dell zigzags from sarcastic quips and colossal self-put-downs to genuine insight and lyrical, even metaphysical heights in fact, his verbal cascades sometimes seem like defiant, even heroic attempts by one man to fill the void by battling against it with every breath. Be it in a Paris hotel room where they’re preparing to attend a wedding, a fanciful old-style train ride set a year after their first breakup, a phone call and a years’ later reunion, Dell, consciously or not, seems to be trying to keep the relationship alive simply by talking all the time the unacknowledged impulse would appear to be that, if he just keeps jabbering, Kimberly will never have the opportunity to call things off. ![]() ![]() The pattern is much the same in the four other stages of their relationship, spanning a six-year period, that are layered into the mix. VIDEO The Most Anticipated Summer Blockbusters of 2014
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