"People Who Hug" The film with the original ambiguous title and translation “People who hug” or another title “Love squared” looks like a tragicomedy with a small element of kitsch and absurdity.
Trying to ridicule society and religious dogmas, the filmmakers (screenwriters) so bravo seized on the demonstrative moralizing that they forgot about the sensibility of the whole film.
Where the plot, like a skeleton, was left naked. And the replicas and dialogues have not overgrown a significant part so that you can keep an intelligent viewer afloat. After all, such a movie is primarily intended for the viewer with experience and experience at least constant views. Easy in genre and cheerful in action, by the middle of the film the plot sags, overgrown with stupidity.
By the way, it so happened that the funeral and the wedding happened on the same day, which they decide to spend in the same house. The clash of views and interests leads to various kinds of misunderstandings, making a new story in the relationship. But passion has no barriers, and the love line goes much further than marriage and everyday values.
Director Daniel Thompson, quite famous for his early works of lyrics and social comedies, in his seventy-something years keeps and remains afloat expressive fusion of melodrama, satire and social issues under the means of the frame. And of course humorous situations that are intertwined in most of her script and production. This film was no exception, working in many ways family contract. Even the son brings a little madness to the plot, his rebellious spontaneity, showing many situations from the perspective of the younger generation.
The conflict of creative work was largely transmitted and resulted in dialogues and frames of the film, making a rushing perception, and undecided in genre affiliation. There is no certainty in the parts shown where her early work should make sense. And it seems that the leading violin is played not by one director, but by authorship and the transfer of experience to his heritage.
We also remember and love her for her unfading creativity in such films as “Majesty Mania”, “The Great Walk”, “The Adventure of Rabbi Jacob” and “Boom” first and second. For the beautiful lyrics in the film "Places in the stalls" and "Love Story". This movie didn't turn out that way. And in the desire to keep your viewer a lot of “raw vinaigrette”, which for some reason had to show fashion trends, freshness and relevance.
Next. Play actors in many moments remains a playful childishness, showing us all the quality seriousness of the relationship to the film. Which, in the storyline, could have turned out much better, because the potential of the film, and the ideas, still had. But they mismanaged him. We'll be thinking and complaining about deadlines, crazy schedules of outstanding actors and something else. In one of the roles, Monica Bellucci starred, looking a little wild and ridiculous, as if she slept and did not settle down in Paris.
Very upset the oldest character in the role of the father of the family, grandfather and just obscene old man. The jokes he made were not funny at all, the lines and stories were humiliating, the behavior did not go with the realities of any modern life. It would have been better if he had not filmed, he would not have been, or at least replace dialogue with silence.
To ruin such a story in our time, we must try. And they almost succeeded. It’s hard to say a good word for them. This is a shame, because the movie could have been much better.
5 out of 10