Some friends of mine (not the youngest amongst them, to say the truth) told me this movie was nice, really worth watching. They even chuckled while quoting this title, as if recalling the movie had the effect of cheering them up. So I thought it really should be a lovely film.
I watched it with a considerable delay on its release but I don't see how this could affect the results. And the result was that what pleased them so much seemed to me a most depressing story about two friends in their sixties, whose good qualities (if they ever had any) had long vanished by now leaving them selfish and unhappy.
But what surprised me the most was that instead of treating this matter lightly, in a satirical way, the Authors wrote a pedant piece, devoid of any funny ideas, as if reciting Molière's 'Le Misanthrope' (several times the same pages ) could substitute for them.
Unfortunately, on my opinion, Master's greatness didn't pass into the movie and nothing substituted for the absence of wit.
I watched it with a considerable delay on its release but I don't see how this could affect the results. And the result was that what pleased them so much seemed to me a most depressing story about two friends in their sixties, whose good qualities (if they ever had any) had long vanished by now leaving them selfish and unhappy.
But what surprised me the most was that instead of treating this matter lightly, in a satirical way, the Authors wrote a pedant piece, devoid of any funny ideas, as if reciting Molière's 'Le Misanthrope' (several times the same pages ) could substitute for them.
Unfortunately, on my opinion, Master's greatness didn't pass into the movie and nothing substituted for the absence of wit.