L'ennui

A must-see.

There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.

Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.

Only mildly interesting.

Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts.

It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.

As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.