Monday Review: Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough in an Indie Drama of Love and Other Drugs
A sexy romantic comedy turns into a drama of bad behavior that s more showy than convincing.
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Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
With: Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Dominique Tipper, Andreas Konstantinou, Elli Tringou, Sofia Kokkali, Sylla Tzoumerkas, Vangelis Mourikis, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Heronymos Kaletsanos.
Some movies can bring out the life coach in you, the one who wants to get the characters to straighten up and fly right. Is that just because they’re behaving badly? Not exactly. Bad behavior is half of what movies are. No, when a film nudges your inner life coach, it’s because someone onscreen is up to something so wrongheaded that it ceases to be clear whether it’s him or the movie that needs an intervention.