Fearing he is being stalked, a film star not so slowly becomes his own worst nightmare and no one seems to care. With no stakes at hand, -- until the only-slightly tense last ten minutes -- no character provides opposition, no character is challenged. This vital conflict seems to be left to the unfortunate viewer who must fight to stay seated. Giovanni Ribisi and a host of other very talented actors try desperately to drag the broken pieces of this pathetic story into view. When it is not necessary for Ribisi to dramatize his unhappy character's descent into madness, his face continues to read, "Someone, please, get me out of this picture!" There are far too many characters and, worse, the characters sometimes exchange roles, to illustrate the film star's confusion and significantly add to the viewer's. The director's ambitious intent seems to be to create an extended Twilight Zone episode, dark, twisted, moral, and full of cheap effects. It never quite works, though there are a few, small moments of disconnected pleasure drawn from the incomparable Ribisi's pained performance and bits of his numerous but admirable supporting players' equally extraordinary commitment. I Love Your Work might go over well in Sweden, where audience distress is sometimes considered evidence of art.
Review of I Love Your Work
