Plot:
Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. Then he returns home to L.A. to his family and wife Mimi. A year later Max returns to New York again to visit Charlie who is now dying, and there he meets Karen again, who is married to Charlie's brother Vernon. - Anonymous

Comment:
From the director of the wonderful Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis, I hoped for something more from this movie. In fact, although I liked the way it was filmed, the story was probably too thin to get a great movie out of it. The idea of two couples being mixed up has been already used in a number of comedies and I think it could have been exploited in a better way to create a more dramatic effect that was somehow lacking here. The other themes such as omosexuality and AIDS were not examined deeply enough, they seemed to be a way to give some more thickness to the plot and to support the main topic.

The first half of the movie was the worst part, sometimes it was dull and it seemed to slow down far too long on certain events such as the two main sex scenes that, albeit not obscene, they were somewhat vulgar. Incidentally, in the second half the events happen in a much quicker way and there are less 'flat' moments.

The main things that improved this otherwise unexciting movie are the photography and the way the scenes are directed and linked together. For example, I liked the idea of taking some 'virtual' black and white snapshots in key parts of the movie. Another very nice feature was the music, used extensively throughout the whole movie.

Finally, I've been fairly knocked by the explicit advertising of a real-world brand that was used as a part of the script (advertisement is the job of the main character), a fictional trademark could have been less catching but more politically correct!