In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
If you only know Wesley Snipes from commercials for exercise equipment or Blade the part Vampire movies, then you probably don't remember him back before he was a cliché. Back when he did things like the Crazy "To Wong Foo".He is great in this movie. Everyone is great. You kinda know it is going to be one of those great little movies when you start seeing the usual suspects of great little indie movies like Kyle McLachlan and Robert Downey Jr plus of course, Julian Sands.Beautifully shot, emotionally wrenching, very human and tolerant about love in all it's aspects (gay/straight, bi-racial, etc) it is just a great great movie. I found it a feel-good movie even though there gut wrenching scenes of loss, mostly thanks to the brilliant Downey. I find it very life affirming.
I thought this film is good to watch if you like human drama. It begins with Max (Wesley Snipes) visiting a gay friend who is dying of aids. When he was on his visit, he has an passionate affair with a white, blond woman (Nastassja Kinski), who turns out to be the wife of his friend.This film has a daring take on interracial relation. While racial words were hardly mentioned in this film, the racial difference was apparent in the love scene between Snipes and Miss Kinski. The difference of skin color was even more explicitly apparent in the love scene when both characters are in bed together, and Snipes puts his black hands onto Nastassja Kinski's white breasts. The whiteness of Miss Kinski's body is also a reflection of her innocent feelings. These sexually sensitive scenes are quite a take on the courage of Miss Kinski. (she has two children at the time and she has to think about the influence on her children when they see their white mom being filmed naked with a black man).If you like dramas, I would recommend this film.
**** Spoilers THROUGHOUT - do not read if you don't wish to know plot ***I'd never heard of this movie. I find it interesting that it gathered such a high proportion of foreign reviewers. Was this more highly promoted overseas than in the U.S.? I've never heard anyone in the U.S. refer to this.This is an intriguing movie primarily due to the truly wonderful caution-to-the-winds casting and the understated, very lightly limned love affair that yields the title. I'd never seen a Wesley Snipes movie, so I know him only from advertisements for action movies I'd no particular interest in seeing. In this, he's very much the center of the movie - yet quite understated and somewhat disagreeable -- in somehow an appealing way.As fine a performance as Downey gives, I don't like the plot point of a dying man causing others to "seize the day". It's simply too obvious - and although I know this is the movie's central theme, I don't like it because I don't believe "seizing the day" should ever mean jettisoning those to whom one has pledged to be faithful throughout life. Nor do I believe that one should determine all decisions in life by the criterion of what is likely to yield greater fulfillment/satisfaction. Such a criterion would mean the jettisoning of any obligation, any pledge, any promise, that is burdensome, onerous, draining to honor. When such pledges are those of marriage vows made before God and man - I have no truck with those who say it's the better course to abandon them because life is short and better times lie elsewhere. Sure, perhaps one should have married another. So? One didn't. The past exists - and vows are made to be kept.So, do I disagree with the central theme of this movie? Yup.Yet I still enjoyed this very much - largely due to the casting and for a change, the very skeletal nicely written plot. Unlike a few others commenting, I did find Snipes and Kinski to have a chemistry together - and found the pairing of white Pole and black American intriguing.I loved MacLachlan's performance (so many of those around a homosexual dying of AIDS do NOT fit - and yet they are always shown in drama as being happily approving of homosexuality).Well Maclachlan isn't - yet amazingly the movie doesn't demonize him. He cares deeply, loves so strongly his brother - and hates the fact that immoral behavior caused his death. It's a great character. MacLachlan does a great job but so do all. Thomas Haden Church is superb (a strongly unlikeable character - all arrogance). One thing I like about the movie is its pretence that race is just wholly irrelevant to people's considerations. I sometimes like to think so - but don't really think all in the country act THAT heedless of race when it comes to fundamental decisions about marriage, children, etc. Hmmm, perhaps in L.A.? Does it matter to no one if their children will not resemble their own complexion? I doubt it - yet it's appealing to see a movie in which this indifference is assumed.The ending is meant to be a surprise - but isn't really - and does seem meant to produce a jack-in-the-box response in the viewer. (But the screenwriter just seemed to be having fun - that's OK but it does reduce the movie's dramatic effect).Do see this - it's remarkable for everyone's performances- but the story itself is just, well, quite intriguing.
There is this night, when a men (Snipes) and a girl (N.Kinski) go into opera and after these there are some gangsters, who want to take there money. In the same night, the men stay by the women and in the middel of it she dream about the gangsters. The fear of them is already there. Then the men loved the girl in a tender way rare shown in cinema and the wolrd become good again. On the next day, the men is flying home to his wife and they make a sort of dirty sex, where you can see, the love between same is not very deep. Then there is a completly other story, about an other men , who is very ill and dying then. At last the men and the women from the one night stand will be toghter and ther love is so much more than only for one night. An interesting movie.