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It is earnest and tortured and pointless, in a very self-serious suffer-for/with-art fashion.
Full reviewOscar nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story) stars alongside Alba Rohrwacher (I am Love) in this 2014 romance drama that contorts into a psychological thriller when a couple come to life-or-death odds about caring for their newborn baby.
It is earnest and tortured and pointless, in a very self-serious suffer-for/with-art fashion.
Full reviewIt’s as if the director can’t decide what he wants: to chronicle the disintegration of a family, or to take a magnifying glass to a woman whose mania overwhelms all rational thought.
Full reviewIt is a tense, claustrophobic nightmare, played with sincerity and force, particularly by Adam Driver. But a strident orchestral score keeps intruding, dark chords telling us how scared we ought to be...
Full reviewThe film’s initial naturalism is warped by overheated film technique and a dead-ending screenplay.
Full reviewThe idea is original enough to pique curiosity, and the small cast, led by Alba Rohrwacher and the up-and-coming Adam Driver of HBO’s Girls fame, digs gamely into the material, but something is missing.
Full reviewBeginning as an adorable romcom, Hungry Hearts morphs into a disturbing but not particularly illuminating story of mental illness.
Full reviewBased on a novel by Marco Franzoso, Hungry Hearts is a riveting, relentless film. It may also be an infuriating one, and not always in a good way.
Full reviewHungry Hearts is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Shudder.
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