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Film Review: ‘The Double Hour’ Cheats Audiences With Multiple Twists
Submitted by BrianTT on May 13, 2011 - 12:44pm
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”The Double Hour” stars Ksenia Rappoport and Filippo Timi. It was written by Alessando Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, & Stefano Sardo and directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. It is not rated and was released in Chicago on May 13th, 2011.
Double Hour
Photo credit: Samuel Goldwyn
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 Rating: 2.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Early in “The Double Hour,” our heroine (a very effective and nearly movie-saving Ksenia Rappoport) goes to a speed dating session. The movie that follows is not unlike a cinematic version of that modern way of meeting people in that it jumps genre to genre like a suitor jumping tables. The result is a film that has marveled people with its labyrinthine plotting but that ultimately feels about as deep as a speed date. You never really get to know it.
“The Double Hour” refers to the 24 times a day when the clock reads the same hour and minute (for example, 11:11 or, in military time, 22:22) and when a wish can be made (or things can get a bit spooky, as they do in the middle act of the film). Like nearly everything in the story, the odd happenings at “The Double Hour” are meant to add an air of mystery to the proceedings but ultimately just add to the clutter.
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As “The Double Hour” jumps genres – including drama, immigration commentary, social piece, romance, thriller, ghost story, family drama, and more – it’s difficult to care. Audiences who have fallen in love with the movie, claim that it takes multiple viewings to appreciate, but that’s more due to there being nothing there than too much. It takes multiple viewings to try to convince yourself there’s a way to connect the dots that the director never bothered to draw in.
“The Double Hour” opens with a suicide. The chambermaid Sonia (Rappoport) who was the last person to speak to the victim becomes the heroine – death, loss, pain, and unexpected twists become the immediate foundation of the film. We follow Sonia to a speed dating session where she meets the charming Guido (Filippo Timi), a former cop who is now a security guard for a wealthy estate. He takes Sonia to the estate, turns off the alarm sensors so they can roam the grounds, and are quickly set upon by men in masks to rob the place. Sonia wakes up with a wound and Guido is dead. Or maybe not.
Continue reading for Brian Tallerico’s full “The Double Hour” review.Double Hour
Photo credit: Samuel Goldwyn
