O Perfume da Memória

Well, first of all, this film has sort of lesbians in it and no one dies or turns completely psycho. That's the good news. The downside, in short, is that it is a complete bore. There are about 20 seconds of real genuine emotion present in the whole 70 minutes. Mostly there are two pretty women grinning at each other, talking endlessly about vague, pompous-sounding Views On Life, while drinking a couple of gallons of wine over the course of a night (and one of them really oughtn't be drinking at all). The camera work is sloppy, and the "surrealistic" interpolations are simply irritating and disrupt what continuity has been established. Neither of the characters has an attractive personality (Ana is particularly unappealing), so it is difficult to see what the two see in each other. If this sounds unfairly harsh, it is because I had some expectations, based on viewer reviews, that this would be an artistically-framed psychological study of women in unusual circumstances. This was not the case. Waste of time.