Empty Nests
Dir Daniel Burman w/ Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth. 91 min. Special Presentations.
BY Jason Anderson
September 02, 2008 20:09
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.
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