The Business of Strangers review
Jan. 8th, 2012 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAnother film where I have no idea what prompted me to put it on my DVD rental list. I have a sneaking suspicion the The Business of Strangers only peaked my interest because it has Julia Stiles in it, and she excellent, as is Stockard Channing in pretty much the only other major part in the film. It's almost entirely limited to an airport hotel, and it's a three-hander (Frederick Weller, whom I know and love from In Plain Sight takes the third part), which makes it feel more like a play than a film, and it's an odd little tale of chance encounters leading to abnormal behaviour over the course of one night.
The motivations of Julia Stiles' character are left pretty ambiguous - it's fairly clear that she doesn't tell much of the truth throughout the film, but it's not made clear why, and I was left wondering what the point was supposed to be. However, good performances and a decent script mostly make up for the lack of a coherent plot, and it's very short!
The motivations of Julia Stiles' character are left pretty ambiguous - it's fairly clear that she doesn't tell much of the truth throughout the film, but it's not made clear why, and I was left wondering what the point was supposed to be. However, good performances and a decent script mostly make up for the lack of a coherent plot, and it's very short!
