This quiet, scenic film is set in the mellow San Francisco of the early 90's, with a pair of convincing and attractive lead actors. You could enjoy watching this on that basis alone. Just get a glass of wine, and you'll feel like you're settled in for the evening wrapped in a warm blanket. The story unfolds slowly, but there are some downright sluggish parts, and there's surprisingly little drama considering the subject matter. This film isn't really an exploration of the thorniness of extramarital affairs - for that you can watch "Unfaithful." Still, there's some food for thought, as well as a few really touching scenes. San Giacomo and Rhys are both great actors and manage to pull it off and keep things interesting.
Nina Takes a Lover
1994
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Nina Takes a Lover
1994
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Laura San Giacomo stars in this sexy comedy about adultery. When Nina's (San Giacomo) husband goes out of town for several weeks on a business trip, Nina hooks up with a photographer. Told from a reporter's point of view, his interviews with Nina and the photographer provide comic insights. Stars Laura San Giacomo, Paul Rhys, Michael O'Keefe, Fisher Stevens and more.
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Beautifully filmed, good performances, but the story is meh
Slow, awkward, cliché.....and that were the best parts
With all due respect to the other reviewers here, I feel compelled to disagree completely & whole heartedly on their view of this movie. I'd also love to have some of whatever they were smoking which made this movie so stellar for them. I would point out to those considering watching it that the average is 5.3 stars and in my opinion, that is generous. The script is slow, the dialogue juvenile & tacky and, while the actors do their best with it, the performances are most definitely lacking.
If you want a "realistic" feeling movie about infidelity, try "Unfaithful" with Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez. Well written, spectacularly acted & far closer to real than "Nina Takes a Lover."
There are no humans in this film
Laura San Giacomo has a husband who's always away on business and it makes her a sad person. She has a meet-obnoxious with photographer Paul Rhys and they start an affair.
This is a terrible movie. Nobody in it has any discernibly human traits, so none of the dialogue sounds like things that real people would say ... and it's all dialogue. Giacomo and Rhys prattle on endlessly in scene after scene after scene.
Full disclosure: The film has a huge twist which caught me totally off-guard. In retrospect, it should have been obvious, but since little about the film made any sense, I assumed that the twist-related details that didn't add up were just part of all the other details that didn't add up. Anyway, the film manages to do nothing of any interest with the twist once it drops.
Nobody in the film is good, but I don't really blame them. At times it reminded me of "The Room", but with better actors and basically competent filmmaking. It's kind of a testament to Giacomo that she can do anything with this.
Michael O'Keefe has a totally irrelevant part that involves sitting in a chair and nodding a lot. Fisher Stevens is about as miscast as it's possible to be as a studly barista.