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Release Date: 03 September, 2002 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Enemies, A Love Story Reviews
The comedy potential is not capitalized on
Ron Silver plays a Jewish concentration camp survivor living in Coney Island (the time is c. 1950) with the non-Jewish peasant girl (Margaret Sophie Stein) who helped save his life during the war. He also has a Jewish mistress (Lena Olin) whom he visits constantly. One day his real wife (Anjelica Huston) from before the war (he thought she was killed) shows up. So now he's involved with three woman - definitely a man with a big problem.
But the movie refuses to take any big risks; it's obviously a very comic situation, but it pulls up short on rather than exploit that humor (one imagines it being handled much differently and better in, say, a Cary Grant-Catherine Hepburn picture of the '30s). The serious side of the storyline - memories of the war, Silver's insane passion for Olin - also goes only so far. We're left with a feeling of being cheated. The ending, which involves Silver and Olin and a last-minute decision that has dire consequences, seems too ambiguous. The movie is okay as far as it goes, but is disappointing in how it falls short of what it could have been.
Great movie. Lousy soundtrack remaster. Disappointing!!
I have to concur with another posted review. Played a rented DVD on my home 2-speaker system. The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is flat, muffled, and during several outdoor scenes, features a digital "howling" harmonic from background sound FX (street traffic, maybe?). It made the film difficult to listen to, and disappointing. The laserdisc release featured "Dolby Surround" audio (now called Dolby 2.0), which would indicate that someone messed this new release up in the transfer. Shameful.
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