Something is missing in this movie and it is the very gist. Oliver (McGregor) is sad, he is always sad, there is a dog (the best acting part in the movie) that follows him everywhere, and Anna (Melanie Laurent) winks in a charmingly mischievous way throughout the movie, yet she is very sad too. One does not, however, understand whence all that sadness: the guy's father died... at the age of 75+... and he had been gay all his life. Now, one understands a certain feeling of unease and possibly even guilt about one's parents having had to lead a life of pretense, but where is the drama that has to explain so much melancholy? Both were melancholic from the beginning and fact is so much sadness ends up in utter dullness.
