A brilliant and brave film
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By
crockery from Belfast
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29th June 2008
This is a disturbing movie, one not easy to watch. Much more than the formula driven 'dysfunction of the month' movie, this tackles a very real medical and sexual problem. It does so candidly and honestly, even using humour in several scenes. Yet it takes neither cheap nor trivial shots and never fails to show deep respect for the problem and for the characters affected by it. It must have been a hard sell to the producers, a movie delving into (and under) a subject that is little understood, which has small public sympathy and which is deeply disturbing to both men and women viewers. Yet it's encouraging that all the comments I read here on IMdb were similar to mine. There was nothing negative. I gave it an 4 rather than a 5 only because Jessica Lange may have been just too much of a saint. Yet who knows what any of us would do if confronted with such a situation in our own marriages. It sparked a good discussion between me and my friendsI. Any movie that gets you thinking and talking is a good movie.
