Empty Nests

Dir Daniel Burman w/ Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth. 91 min. Special Presentations.

  • Favourite  
  • Recommend:

BY Jason Anderson   September 02, 2008 20:09

Editorial Rating:

A successful playwright and his wife discover they have little use for each other after their kids are gone in this minor-key effort by the maker of Family Law and Lost Embrace. It’s unfortunate that director Daniel Burman is more interested in the activities of the sour, solipsistic Leonardo (Martinez) than the more vivacious Martha (Roth) — the occasional deployment of Fellini-esque fantasy sequences is also ill-judged. But Empty Nest’s subtler moments do yield some insights about the tricky process of giving a marriage a new reason to be. 

Email us at: LETTERS@EYEWEEKLY.COM or send your questions to EYEWEEKLY.COM
625 Church St, 6th Floor, Toronto M4Y 2G1
Film Finder
|
GO

Related Stories

Good
This European co-production drama, about a literature professor who unwittingly becomes a Nazi stooge in the run up to the Third Reich, doesn’t do much to answer the age-old question of how ordinary individuals can become bound up a collective evil. It doe

Management
Playwright and screenwriter Stephen Belber makes his directorial debut with a relentlessly sweet and hopeful film that is miles away from his best-known play, Tape (adapted for film with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman in 2001), a claustrophobic and viciously

Miracle at St. Anna
Working from James McBride’s adaptation of his novel about the travails of four “Buffalo soldiers” — members of the all–“colored” 92nd Infantry Regiment — in WWII Tuscany, Spike Lee mounts his very own war epic with mixed but often exciting results. That s

MORE INSIDE