Sliding Doors Movie Review Ny Times
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
Sliding doors movie review ny times. Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman. By chance a woman discovers her boyfriend is having an affair at the same time she meets a much nicer guy who s getting divorced. It is very interesting that in 1998 two movies presented similar concepts of different situations depending on a minor event. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two.
Is either time line interesting in itself. A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways in parallel. If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help.
I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work. Rotten tomatoes home of the tomatometer is the most trusted measurement of quality for movies tv. What if the movie wonders the subway train helen just missed catching by a split second had plunged her into a different romantically brighter future than her current situation seemed to augur. Sliding doors and lola rennt.
The definitive site for reviews trailers showtimes and tickets. Pregnancy and losing a baby are plot points. This theme is fascinating but there are many unfair reviews of this film in imdb which is one of my favorite movie. And i fear they are not.
Sliding doors spins out an idle romantic daydream revolving around helen whom the movie presents as a late 90s it girl. Directed by peter howitt. If peter howitt s slender romantic comedy sliding doors were set in 1967 its vivacious main character helen gwyneth paltrow would be referred to in the quaint parlance of swinging england. Parents need to know that sliding doors is a 1998 fantasy about finding love featuring two parallel stories.
Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. We see it both ways in parallel.