The period storyline is engrossing and wonderfully rendered in details and performances that ring true. truly transcendant was a scene in which Sarah Polley is finally shown some human tenderness and it all plays on a close-up of her face. The modern day allegorical tale, however, sinks the film, appropriately enough given what the film is called. No French Lieutenant's Woman, this. The overt sexual tension between the characters caused the audience to laugh in the theater in which I saw this. Saxophone, ice cubes and Hurley's breasts, though elementally splendid, add nothing to this weak storyline. They should have jetisoned the modern day story but then they would have had a period piece and people wouldn't pay to see that, right? Such a waste.
Review of The Weight of Water
