Astronaut Lovers (The)

The actors do a decent job with this dialogue-laden script. If the pace of the film was as quick as to how they speak, this story would be over in a jiffy! Alas, it's stretched to almost two hours. It feels like an eternity!

The film itself is composed of conversation after conversation after conversation ad nauseum - how much flirting can these two do without doing what they want to do?!? Just get on with it...but, no - not in this will they/won't they conundrum.

Call it a bisexual cat-and-mouse game with both participants switching roles while tip-toeing across that stereotypical border into the realm of the selfish bisexual. He [the bisexual] wants to but doesn't want to hurt him [emotionally speaking], the gay one wants to...but, wants more than just a hook-up. 

There's a girlfriend and an ex-girlfriend who pop in and out - there's a convoluted game, telling their housemates that they are now a [pretend] couple...and, apart from the bizarre astronautical metaphor there's even a weird definition of being 'gay' - which will bamboozle rather than enlighten. Prompting the question: Do young men actually speak to each other like this? Doubtful.

The film works best when they shut up - sadly, too rare. The cinematography is luscious and their on-screen chemistry surely spills off-screen, they really are that good. But, if a picture paints a thousand words, why use words? Especially when you have an artist behind the camera!

Too verbose, too long, too too much...but, the actors make it bearable, heart-warmingly so.

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