rodolphefleury-182-126991

The book is bold, provocative, feminist, inventive, clever, hilarious yet touching ... everything this show isn't. It's just irritating, annoying, dull, pretentious and idiotic. Lots of name dropping, which is meant to give an arty edge to this horribly self indulged tv show. The problem is that they added characters that does not exist in the book and those are very cliché, under developed and frankly ridiculous. Some of the dialogues are badly written, it's meant to be provocative but it sounds like it's been written by some immature teenagers (but in the worse possible way). In the book you're meant to hate Dick but here in the end you just don't care about him much. The problem is Chris, in the book she's a witch, but an amusing and touching one, here she's just hysterical and angry all the time. It's not the actress is bad, she's just poorly directed. Here you can tell she's doing her best, she has a few moments, but her character has been reduced, it's very unidimensional. I wonder how it is possible to come up with something as tedious as this show with a material as amazing as Chris Kraus' great novel.

It starts well, especially the photography, and despite some plot holes, then from the hot spring scene it gets worse and worse to an absolutely nonsensical ending that is so goofy and wtf that it makes you laugh hysterically, and most are not meant to be that funny. It has multiple references to literature classic but most of the time it's just name dropping or misused. There's lots of pseudo deep reflections that are either cheesy or / and pointless and totally ridiculous. It's meant to be clever, the literature references aspire to give this film a clever edge and high feelings but it's just plain silly. Too bad for the young actors who try their best to act.