12 August 2012. This offbeat and quirky movie is a Lost In Translation (2003) with an evolving love comedy set in San Francisco. What makes this movie stand out is both is mundane, rather slow moving but in some ways authentic snippets of events that the two main characters as well as supporting characters find themselves in. There is a genuineness of place and of experience that one can relate to in the very normal strangeness that seems to beset our couple here. The audience gets to be a voyeuristic observer in a journey of one night where change occurs and becomes the very essence of the movie. If one is carefully engaged in this movie and open to it, one can one away transformed in a meaningful way, something most movies don't or are unable to do. Timothy Hutton performs well in a duel personality of both dispassionate scientist and befuddled everyman in an Alice in Wonderland way.
Review of Just One Night
