We Don't Live Here Anymore

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08/08/2021 Dramma che lega a doppio filo le vite di due coppie di "amici" che vivono crisi di coppia ed intrighi amorosi. I dialoghi sono ben strutturati ed i personaggi ben strutturati; forse la pecca maggiore è far girare tutto intorno a Mark Ruffalo, che forse è il meno interessante dei quattro. Nel complesso i due caratteri sono creati molto meglio e sono molto sensuali. See more 08/06/2017 Good performances, mostly Laura Dern ?, incredibly depressing, based on stories by Andre Dubus See more 08/03/2016 Intense and very well acted. See more 07/14/2015 Scathing look at two couples and the painful stages of their disintegrating marriages. Wonderfully acted, especially from Laura Dern. See more 07/11/2015 There is nothing new here, but just great acting from the whole cast, and especially Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern who really chew up the scenes they are in. See more 04/24/2015 "We Don't Live Here Anymore" begins at the ending of two marriages. The couples are Jack and Terry (Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern), Hank and Edith (Peter Krause and Naomi Watts). The four have been friends for years, and they know each other too well - still there, though, is the plausibility that they're attracted to one another. Maybe that's why they eventually decide to play spouse swap and hope the consequences aren't too cruel. If they weren't so unlikable, we'd possibly relish watching their potentially juicy infidelities. But no. "We Don't Live Here Anymore" doesn't do anything besides give us too many shrill arguments, too many selfish characters. Dramas that entail a marriage on the rocks can make for compelling entertainment (cough "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), but a single false move can place a so-called "marriage dissolution" film in a purgatory less enjoyable than that of a mid-life-crisis. It's too bad that "We Don't Live Here Anymore" is a movie made completely out of false moves without a hint of truth in sight. But anyway, back to the couples. They were all once happily married, but kids, lost opportunities, and an overall feeling of discontent has left them miserable. Jack and Edith are having an affair, meeting in shady hotels, forests, and even each other's houses to rendezvous - but all dirtiness aside, both feel much too guilty to do anything serious regarding their physical attraction. Terry, meanwhile, is dissatisfied in the role of a homemaker; with Jack's standoffishness to fuel the fire, she feels as though she is failing at the few jobs life throws at her every day. Hank, the most thinly written character in the movie and possibly a sociopath, is a serial cheater who doesn't understand why infidelity could ruin a marriage - to him, lack of conscience is a given. Sooner or later, though, the truth about the entire situation comes to light, but it's surprising just how much it doesn't have an effect on us. The writing is stilted, the dialogue coming across with the forced effort of the play that draped the core of 1977's "Opening Night", and the characters just aren't winsome enough for us to care about what happens to them. Jack and Edith's affair is only thinly developed - chemistry darts around them. Technically, this probably should happen - they aren't meant to be together - but the desperation doesn't seem drenched in sadness, instead boredom. And poor Dern and Krause: Dern, as terrific as she is, is given a role that requires her to be raucous at the worst of times, and Krause seems to dwell under the shadow of his fellow actors in the thin, philandering husband role. Other complaints abound (strange how characters have flashbacks from the camera's point-of-view instead of their own, how a voiceover details the film for a narrow five minutes then miraculously disappears), but I'd rather not dwell on them. The performances are good, but "We Don't Live Here Anymore" doesn't have enough of a soul to make sitting through its bleak 98 minutes worth it. See more Read all reviews

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