I adore Elizabeth Rohm. Not because she is a great actress, because she probably isn't, but because she is so alluring and real. Danny and Angelica Huston have always been solid performers.
This movie has everything, a great plot, great actors and an adequate budget. Somehow the sum of its parts is less than expected. I assume the directing was poor, because all of these people have been much better in other roles.
It is worth watching, a great study in jealously and human emotion.
Plot summary
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.
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February 24, 2022 at 05:25 PM
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I so wanted this to be great...
Very disappointed
This new movie should use another name besides 'The Kreutzer Sonata.' It may be based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy but it is nothing like it. I just read the novella and it was so much more powerful, and emotional. The real Kreutzer Sonata was raw. And it is sad what it has been turned into. The original was real, depicting the true faces of reality. And above all it was used as a tool to spread a philosophy and a message of Tolstoy's which is nowhere to be found in the contemporary defacement of the old classic.
In the original the basic story is about lust, and the problems of the structured institutionalized world we live in. Tolstoy's main points revolve around the idea of marriage and its lost meaning. He also speaks at length about the purpose of sex, of sexual pleasure, and the purpose of life and procreation... ..much of which can not and will not be understood by many.
This movie is a real find.
Listen, I have seen 23 first votes that rank this film as a 3.7
The one negative review I saw was from a fan of the original novella by Leo Tolstoy; they made complaints about major points of the novella, including its philosophies and theories on marriage and sex, not being duly appropriated in this adaptation.
And I have to say that they are plainly insane to "besmirch" this film as to the extent that they have.
What I got out of this film was an originally filmed and paced independent film that wasn't annoyingly experimental. Its voice over made the film into a good unforced narrative with acting that was equally effective.
I loved the story, I loved the acting. The feelings of jealousy, suspicion, anxiety, and suffocation were so absorbing. I felt attached to most of this film. The acting was fluid and perfect chemistry. There are so many ways to act a scene. Danny Huston and Elisabeth Rohm's performances were some of the most realistic and enjoyable I have ever seen. At times the film felt like a documentary between the characters and the hand-held style.
I felt like this was definitely one of the best films I've seen in a long time. This is a wonderful ride with a great efficacy.