Obsession (Uncut edition)

A good watch for a rainy day . . . First of all – ignore the folks here trying to turn this silly little time-passer into a gender war. Get over yourselves . . . this ain’t all that. Rent “Thelma & Louise” if you want gender politics.But I have to admit, this kind of snuck up on me. I wasn’t expecting much, but by the end I was pleasantly surprised by how much I had enjoyed it. It’s certainly no “Love Story” or “Romeo and Juliet,” but it is a nicely-paced, well-cast, beautifully photographed little French “Unfaithful”…

Typical media garbage Basic, typical film garbage.**SPOILER**Woman has affair with boy toy. Woman is suddenly the big victim. She goes back to normal in the end instead of being kicked to the curb like trash. The End.The director, a woman (GASP), made a couple of these films with the same basic theme of ‘woman questioning what she has’ back-to-back. “Soof” was about a woman with a hubby and kids questioning her place, “The Happy Housewife” was about a woman ‘losing what she had’…