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10/28/06
Two Drifters (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 6
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This Portuguese tale of love and disaster sees two recently dumped women, Rui and Odete, obsessed with the same man, Pedro. Pedro has left Rui on their anniversary, and the unstable Odete is determined to have him for herself. All three are... [More]
Starring: Joao Carreira, Carloto Cotta, Ana Cristina De Oliveira
Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Reviews for Two Drifters
1 - 14 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
An overwrought weepie, it may be inspired by the recent dramas of Pedro Almodóvar, but it comes off as Almodóvar Lite -- muy lite.
09/01/06
Climaxing with a union as heartfelt as it is perverse, the movie asserts with eccentric force the belief that love knows no bounds, be they physical, spiritual or sensible.
08/25/06
Top Critic Director Joćo Pedro Rodrigues has a poetic visual sense, but the novice actors remain so frozen in deer-in-headlights reaction shots, its all but impossible to get onboard for their predicaments.
08/24/06
Neither sentimental nor cruel, yet touching and trenchant, the movie sustains a profound ambivalence right up to the final shot.
08/19/06
Top Critic An arresting and lucid study of how gay men and straight women often compete for the same objects of lust, the same velvety nostalgias for a certain vision of love.
07/28/06
Top Critic This movie doesn't have enough heart or energy to inspire wonder -- with a weak script, utterly unsympathetic characters and a nonsensical plot, it can barely keep plodding along.
07/20/06
Though the film contains many haunting images, the absence of a solid emotional foundation makes its increasingly preposterous story developments feel arbitrary and ultimately pointless.
06/23/06
It's hard to say what's worse in the strange Portuguese drama Two Drifters: the insufferable wordless stretches, or the sudsy dialogue.
06/23/06
Arriving from Portugal, this ludicrous melodrama of female hysteria is an oddly compelling bit of cinematic folly.
06/20/06
Like O Fantasma, perhaps the scariest and finest film ever made about the compulsion of gay desire, Two Drifters' sensual-spiritual plumbing is totally off-the-map.
06/16/06
A tiresomely silly film that suffers from overacting and an overwritten script.
06/03/06
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