I'm Losing You
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Movie Reviews of I'm Losing You
Movie Review: very real...and surreal
Summary: 5 Stars
there is not much i can say about this film except that i walked around in a daze for a couple days after seeing it. it starts off rather slow but in the end it is tragic and redemptive and completely stunning.Movie Review: A Meditation on Death and Dying: Reconstructing a Family
Summary: 4 Stars
Bruce Wagner's screen adaptation of his novel I'M LOSING YOU has some of the more intelligent dialogue to be encountered in a film. Since Wagner also directed this little gem, brimming over with excellent actors, we can be assured that his message of death as a necessary component in the cycle of life is intact. Despite the dour content of the story this film actually leads to a credible sense of how deaths can ultimately be redemptive: it is all in how vulnerable we allow ourselves to become in coping with this life change.
The story is focused on a wealthy Los Angeles family headed by television producer of sci-fi series Perry Krohn (Frank Langella), married to a psychiatrist Diantha (Salome Jens) despite having a 'helper' mistress Mona (Amanda Donahue), 'stepfather' of a disillusioned daughter Rachel (Rosanna Arquette) and a has-been actor son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy) who makes a living selling back insurance policies to AIDS patients: the father has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer and his attempts to set his will in order is the catalyst for the story. The son is separated from his ex-wife, a disturbed addicted woman Lidia (Gina Gershon) and the two fight over custody of their young child Tiffany (Aria Noelle Curzon). Complicating matters is the fact that Rachel has never been told until now that her biologic father murdered her mother and committed suicide AND that her stepfather had a onetime sexual fling with her mother.
Things begin to consistently fall apart: the son falls in love with one of the AIDS victims, Aubrey (Elizabeth Perkins), to whom he sells insurance who has a son and lives in horror that she will soon die and her son will be abandoned. About this same time Tiffany is killed in an automobile accident, the fault of her drugged out mother, and Rachel embraces her Jewish heritage by learning how to perform the body cleansing ritual performed as a loving act on the dead - the dead being Tiffany. And at this peak of crises, Aubrey dies in a hospital, succumbing to every complication known to AIDS.
How this fractured family comes together in the midst of all these losses and lifetime barriers to communication serves as the resolution of this complex but infinitely interesting story.
The actors all give bravura performances, relishing the smart dialogue and the multilayered meanings to each encounter captured by the fine cinematographer. This may not be a film for everyone, but for those seeking more form a film than entertainment will find much food for thought here. Recommended. Grady Harp, September 05
Movie Review: A 90's cable-drama quality soap-opera mishap!
Summary: 2 Stars
Watch this DVD if you are into Lifetime specials.
This painfully inept drama is crafted with a loosing blend of melodrama, bad jokes, overwrought plot twists, and a myriad of under-developed characters. The central issue here is this film's over-broadness; I'm Loosing You takes a stab at every possible genre. Never really allowing itself enough time to explore the possibilities within one central story with well developed characters, it sprawls out its never-ending twists and turns over the lives of at least 7 different characters, lives that somehow strangely (although predictably) manage to intertwine (much in the way Crash did in 2004). The minute we become attached to a character, the film jump cuts to another; it's annoying!
I give this movie 2 stars (instead of 1) because it is not a complete waste of time. It can manage to entertain you when you are under the weather and are looking for something very basic.
Movie Review: Well acted, but unsatisfying, I'd say.
Summary: 2 Stars
We were two people who saw the film, and we both agreed that while well-acted, the word that came to mind was "unsatisfying." Some strong scenes, and some good acting, but some of the dialog was - I can only call it - "artificially sharp." (But that might be the way the characters were supposed to be, according to the writer.) We were sort of looking forward to seeing the film just end, to be honest. I recorded it from TV, and have now erased it.