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Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "Guardian"


Peter Bradshaw
Friday May 12, 2006
The Guardian

What a screamingly awful waste of the talents of Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep. This hopeless romcom is written and directed by Ben Younger, who once upon a time gave us the tough, chewy drama Boiler Room. Thurman plays a 37-year-old woman who has just emerged from a nasty divorce; by chance she meets a hunky 23-year-old guy called David (a dull, callow performance from Bryan Greenberg) and begins a passionate affair with him. Her therapist (Meryl Streep) cheerfully advises her to get stuck in. Some uncomplicated, remedial bonking is just the ticket. Unforeseen circumstances soon cloud both the affair and the doctor-patient relationship, however.

Every single opportunity for black comedy in the scenes between Thurman and Streep is systematically squandered in Younger's feeble script - quite obviously because of a fear of making Streep's character unlovable. In her family environment, her character is supposed to be quite the martinet, insisting at all times on the importance of religion, and this turns out to be a secret part of what sours her approval for Uma's hot young squeeze. Yet all the potential for interesting drama or simple laughs is sacrificed, because of this reluctance to risk flattening the romcom souffle. Streep and Thurman strain desperately to get some juice out of this barren screenplay, which finally keels over with a larcenous borrowing of the bittersweet memory-montage sequence from Annie Hall. You can almost see the flash of panic behind Streep's eyes. Can no one give this outstanding actor a decent role?

barren- jałowy, bezpłodny
bonk- uprawiać seks
callow- nieopierzony, niedoświadczony
chewy- ciągnący się
circumstance- okoliczność
emerge from- wychodzić z
feeble- słaby, wątły
flatten- spłaszczać
hunky- seksowny, postawny, atrakcyjny
insist- upierać się
keel over- przewracać się
larcenous- złodziejski
martinet- służbista
outstanding- wybitny
reluctance- niechęć
remedial- rehabilitacyjny, zaradczy
romcom- romantic comedy; komedia romantyczna
screamingly- potwornie, bardzo
souffle- suflet
sour- oziębiać, pogarszać
squander- trwonić, marnować
squeeze- sympatia (chłopak, dziewczyna)
strain- wytężać się, napinać, nadwyrężać
unforeseen- nieprzewidziany


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