Le Week-end stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as Nick and Meg a couple who head to Paris for the weekend for their 30th Wedding Anniversary, their marriage is clearly in trouble from the start, and as the Kids have now left home they attempt to find their feelings for each other.
This is a film with a lot of issues, firstly it goes nowhere, the relationship between Nick and Meg is as unresolved at the end of the Movie as it is in the beginning. Secondly it is far from original, it has been done many times before, and a lot better. Hope Springs from this time last year is a much funnier film, with much the same storyline.
There are a few good laughs along the way, mostly at the expense of Birmingham, and perhaps this wants to be a more serious piece than I am giving it credit for. Broadbent's speech at the dinner party is very good, with an honesty about it, and the characters of Nick and Meg are very well drawn with lots of issues. The Jeff Goldblum Character however is just stereotypically Jeff Goldblum, I'm not sure he knows how to play anything else.
I may not be the target audience demographic for this movie, but I struggled to enjoy it. If you want a older married couple discovering their love for each other movie, I suggest you fire up Netflix and watch Hope Springs 3/10
This is a film with a lot of issues, firstly it goes nowhere, the relationship between Nick and Meg is as unresolved at the end of the Movie as it is in the beginning. Secondly it is far from original, it has been done many times before, and a lot better. Hope Springs from this time last year is a much funnier film, with much the same storyline.
There are a few good laughs along the way, mostly at the expense of Birmingham, and perhaps this wants to be a more serious piece than I am giving it credit for. Broadbent's speech at the dinner party is very good, with an honesty about it, and the characters of Nick and Meg are very well drawn with lots of issues. The Jeff Goldblum Character however is just stereotypically Jeff Goldblum, I'm not sure he knows how to play anything else.
I may not be the target audience demographic for this movie, but I struggled to enjoy it. If you want a older married couple discovering their love for each other movie, I suggest you fire up Netflix and watch Hope Springs 3/10
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