This is no ordinary girl. In my opinion, Penelope Cruz is the most exotic, sexy, mysterious and beautiful of all the living actors, forming a kind of magic. She can't be described as a so-called "goddess", but as the film says, she is a "work of art", even with a sultry Spanish accent. She can fully afford this role. In the film, she is exposed in all directions, in all aspects, in all styles and hairstyles. Every place is a fatal attraction, and nothing disappoints.
And this film is not an old-fashioned story of diaosi and goddesses. The male protagonist is a successful and eloquent professor and art critic. He can't even count the female students he has had, but he has never been deeply involved in them. His most "stable" relationship is with the former student Patricia. Thea Clarkson's 20-year gunfighting friendship. But he's not a diamond king, like George Clooney or Sean Connery, who gets more and more sexy as he gets older. Despite his high-end tastes and rich experience, years have been ruthless to him. For him, the average female college student is nothing to worry about, but Penelope Cruz, still 30 years younger, suddenly appeared in life, and it still made him like a dream. Ben Kingsley fits and interprets the role of such a declining young female icon very well.
I have to praise how appropriate the casting of the male and female protagonists is. The movie uses Ben Kingsley's side as a clue to depict his at a loss and reaction to this relationship. He is really addicted to it, but he doesn't believe that such a "artwork" will stay by his side for a long time. The old friend also kept persuading him that long pain is worse than short pain, so he always hesitated. The details are very precise and precise, which resonates with me deeply. For example, the other party admires and praises his talent very much, but he has never praised his body, and he has to struggle for a long time and so on. If I also face such unbelievable feelings, my mental activity will be just like the hero. In my impression, this is the first time that a romance film has given me such an experience.
Such an accurate and delicate grasp of the feelings of men and women, at first glance, she is indeed a female director. There are plenty of good lines in the film, too, such as "Men are taking mad revenge for all the bad things in the world when they're faking women." Plus, the clean and quick cuts between old-timers and "artwork," and There are quite a few classic scores (such as the soprano that always accompanies Penelope Cruz's charismatic passages, Ben Kingsley's gloomy piano is Bach's Fugue in G Minor, and some suspected Vivaldi and Beethoven's music), make the film under the control of the female director more exciting.
I was just about to see how this kind of entanglement ended. Unfortunately, the director didn't have a good answer, so he was forced to go to the cliché, which has to be said to be a big pity.
But if I had the chance to do something like this with Penelope Cruz, I would die.
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