Obsession

Predictable, sometimes boring, slow, and with an ending not realistic.

The German title of the movie is Obsessed ... which may be a bit missleading. Then again Rendez-Vouz is not really something that explains much either is it now? But don't let that stand in the way of a drama of a woman that has issues in her marriage and finds some satisfaction in another place.

That may sound simple but the movie actually is very good! It really builds up to something and the decisions that are being made make sense. This may be one of the best dramas about infidelity ... of course that is not all there is. There are a few twists on the way and some feelings that are being taken advantage of ... and yet the movie might be able to surprise you here and there. It was able to do that with me.

I started watching this expecting horror or suspense - I got none. This is a bad romantic drama and that's it. There really doesn't happen all that much in the movie, there is this house that should be bulldozed instead of renovated and this lady that can't keep her pants on. Well she is a pretty lady, but it just isn't nearly enoung.

With a slow buildup and not so riveting plot, the storyline was predictable. However, there were some awesome performances from the actors which did make up for it. Being said that, the plot became interesting to the end, and the climax was all the more realistic.

It was all just a bit meh, I guess? Even when they tried to spice it up a bit with sex scenes, they were only half-cooked. And no, I'm not saying they should have shown more skin, specifically, I'm saying they needed something a bit MORE to them. Like, maybe some more lingering and allusive shots OR something more overt and confronting. The scenes themselves weren't terrible, they just didn't really commit to anything with them. Then again, the movie is listed on Prime as "Horror" but there's maybe 5 to 10 minutes of almost-psychological-horror and that's it. I'd have LOVED for that to have been better fleshed out, too.

Like I said, it's neither very special nor overly terrible, but it COULD have been. It just needed a bit more work on the script. The actors were great, the setting was lovely, the sound design was awesome for the budget they probably had, the script just let everyone down. I'd like to see what a British studio would do with a remake of this tbh. Not an American studio, they'd probably crank up the bombast and over-stylise the sex scene. IF they even left the sex scene in, that is, we know how Americans love to censor sex and increase the violence. This, though, this just needs a bit more meat on the bones of the script. Give the sex a bit more weight, and actually push through on the psychological horror aspect barely hinted at here.