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Simple Men

Simple Men

1992
Comedy, Drama
1h 45m
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. (imdb)
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Simple Men

1992
Comedy, Drama
1h 45m
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Rated 09 Sep 2016
70
51st
Minimal and dry but charming, requires viewer to "read" not just watch.
Rated 15 Nov 2011
55
31st
I keep meaning to get into Hal Hartley, and I keep finding his films pleasant and occasionally brilliant but also far too artificial and theatrical for their own good. Great soundtrack as always, though.
Rated 30 Dec 2016
40
27th
Mediocre Hartley effort.
Rated 15 Jun 2009
60
50th
Far too "stagey" and pretentious to be interesting.
Rated 10 May 2009
71
60th
Deliberately deadpan and cliched, Hartley's quirky style can either irritate or illuminate via the weird turnings of his characters' lives.
Rated 05 Dec 2008
96
96th
There's no such thing as adventure, there's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
Rated 31 Dec 2008
35
4th
Posing to look cool/cult...
Rated 22 Mar 2010
30
4th
Complete waste of time.
Rated 23 Jan 2017
80
68th
Most effective Hal Hartley movie for me so far, even if it loses steam in the third act. I need to find Henry Fool.
Rated 14 Nov 2018
70
35th
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Rated 15 Apr 2019
8
38th
One of my least favorite Harley films.
Rated 30 Sep 2023
84
75th
Despite all the talking in circles and surface philosophizing, these two guys really are simple: they want to be loved. The ending is a poignant call back to the first scene. Hartley's typical staginess functions as a distancing technique. It reminds me a bit of the way a master like Bresson elicits a distancing effect through formal means. Hartley's form differs, but the result is the same: we are forced to focus on character and situation, rather than be drawn in falsely by cinematic tricks.
Rated 15 Feb 2024
60
35th
Hartley has a wicked sense of humor, but this one felt like he was trying to be a little too creative. I started to lose interest around the dance scene; perhaps I was waiting for Mary (the Mother of God) to make a reappearance.

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