Confessions

CONFESSIONS (2010) - Sept. 19, 2010
Featuring a fractured narrative that traces a murder and its aftermath, this was a kind of interesting film that I think probably worked better on paper than in execution.  Though the general style and use of music suggests that the director intended this to be riveting all the way through, I got tired of the overly-dense, narration heavy narrative fairly quickly, making the film kind of a slog to sit through.  The movie is constantly throwing information at the viewer, and never really slows down to allow us to process it or develop the characters in any meaningful way.  Because of this, it was kind of hard to care about anything that unfolded.  The whole thing worked much better as a novel, I'm sure.  *1/2