This was recommended to my by a friend who knows how much I adore Closer. If you like Closer, you're very likely to enjoy Last Night. For all intents and purposes, this is a story that belongs on the stage, where it can captivate its audience with the slow burn tension, lengthy and engaging dialogue exchanges and its minimum location count - but it's brilliantly brought to the screen.

This is a story where you will have no character to root for, no character who's the hero, no character who's innocent. It's a grown up look at relationships and the complexities that are often underwritten by our innate jealousies, insecurities and desires.

The beauty of the film is its inherent realism - there are moments where you may find dialogue that's effectively a rehash of discussions you've had yourself, or at least I did. It's the fragments of our own experiences that are played out through these characters and it is in these brutal exchanges that we find some catharsis for our own broken dreams, missed opportunities and the deepest, darkest moments where we consider who is really the one we love.

The ending is likely to piss some people off - for me, it ended on the perfect note. This is not a film to answer questions.  It's a film to provoke your senses, open your mind to your own feelings and to question what choices you can make in the future direction of your love life... if you have the benefit of getting that option.

Just watched the 'trailer' - def. will check it out when it's released in Oz... hope it will be. Good to see Sam Worthington is really coming up into the world too, and not just doing to 'Action'.

I'm a fan of realistic 'domestic dramas' for want of a better phrase, long as they're not of 'made for TV' i.e. midday-movie calibre. Loved 'Closer' and even 'Story of Us' had its moments - bit of a departure for Bruce Willis. And, I'm looking forward to 'Blue Valentine' though some say it's a bit of a downer.

Ah, the eternal question: 'Are you happy'.

Someone on SS recently reviewed 'The Romantics' too, which def. looks interesting.
AA, thanks for spotlighting this.