Finally Last Night
I’ve told my sons over and over that few things in life are more painful than to discover that your significant other has cheated on you. It’s like a knife in the heart and will most likely destroy your relationship so don’t go there. But if you do, don’t get caught. Take it seriously. Play your cards like you’re an undercover agent in East Germany in a John Le Carre novel. Which means short-term flings only because long-term affairs are always found out sooner or later.
This isn’t a roundabout way of saying it’s okay to cheat — it’s not. It’s a very cruel and selfish thing to hurt someone you care for and are committed to out of erotic whim. But people are fallible and no one is perfect and a dalliance or two doesn’t have to be fatal. Just be careful.
Massy Tajedin‘s Last Night will play at the Tribeca Film Festval (4.20 through 5.1). Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guilaume Canet and Griffin Dunne costar. Tadjedin directed and wrote the script. It’s basically about two couples dealing with temptation, etc.
The only thing giving me pause is that Last Night began shooting in October ’08, and here it is almost two and a half years later. It played at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, but that represents approximately a 20-month gap between wrapping and being seen, and that’s still a little prolonged.
I really liked this. It’s very minor, basically Knightley and Worthington each branching off with their respective temptation, but as a late-night mood piece it’s smart and serious, and maybe finally people will shut up and give LORD Worthington some props for his acting. Though the Keira-Canet stuff seems to get the foreground, and it’s mostly Knightley’s movie, and a treat to see her sexy and vibrant again, instead of dolled up in some frumpy period garb or moping around in wan brown tones.
Plus it has one scene that was right up my alley, fetish-wise.
“This isn’t a roundabout way of saying it’s okay to cheat — it’s not.”
Except for you; it’s okay for you to help a woman cheat on her husband for 2 years because she was the love of your life. That’s completely different.
Worthington actually looks and talks great in that trailer. It got its release here today as a matter of fact but I seem to have missed the press screening. I’ll check it out later this or probably next week.
Jeff: It actually did play at TIFF last year.
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2010/lastnightakatellme
The reviews I read were extremely positive.
This one was scheduled to be released by Miramax as early as Christmas, 2009 but it was bumped to 2010 and then lost in the whole Miramax sale shuffle.
Looks good.
Our VARIETY critic liked the film a lot, a fact I know because this was opening in Paris a few weeks ago when I was there and I was curious enough to look this up.
“Extramarital temptation rears its pretty head in “Last Night,” an aptly gorgeous-looking Manhattan meller whose quartet of sexy actors proves no less attractive than the well-mounted pic as a whole. An “Indecent Proposal” of sorts, the directorial debut of screenwriter Missy Tadjedin follows young and wealthy Joanna and Michael Reed (Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington) through a suspicion-filled marital quarrel that leads each to weigh the costs and benefits of cheating on the other. Once wedded to Miramax and currently single, Tadjedin’s tastefully provocative, ultimately haunting pic should raise the pulses of distribs and auds alike.”
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943621?refcatid=31
Good thing I worked a weekend and OT like two posthouse gigs ago to rush out the cable TV transfers of this movie in like late 2009, early 2010. I see that hard work was REALLY necessary on that tight deadline, since it probably won’t be airing on TV till mid 2012. Shoot me.
If you do cheat, buy two disposable cell phones. One for the other person and one for you. Then you don’t have to worry about your your spouse checking your regular cell. Just a thought.
Wells to The Thing: The heart wants what it wants, and no one will ever be able to tell me that the affair in question wasn’t a blessed event in some respects. Until it became one of the most painful relationship episodes of my life, that is.
The heart wants what it wants? No integrity, no character and certainly no real love for the wounded party.
Why do people do this? There is no justification.
If the heart wants a NASCAR jacket, the heart wants a NASCAR jacket.
The wounded party was me and the woman I fell in love with. We both took the hits, but I think I took the most painful ones. I don’t care about the husband.
“few things in life are more painful than to discover that your significant other has cheated on you.”
Well, I’m glad this sentence came from a place of sympathy and understanding.
“If you do cheat, buy two disposable cell phones. One for the other person and one for you. Then you don’t have to worry about your your spouse checking your regular cell. Just a thought.”
Yeah, having her discover a second cellphone in your pants pocket with only one number in the contacts is much less suspicious.
Hey, could some of you stop chastising people who cheat on their lovers or are cheated on? Because you sound like morons with no life experience.
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There’s a difference between being tempted, and actually doing it. I mean, who hasn’t been with their significant other and looks at an attractive person for an extra second or 2. Hell, some of us have had an opportunity to cheat, even for just 1 night. But you have to stay strong, and realize that no amount of fun, for however long, is worth losing the person you’re with. At the very least, you should have enough integrity and morals to not do it.
Or I just find girls are too hot to cheat on. Why go elsewhere when I got everything I need right here?
But I’m glad that you don’t care about other people, especially the people you claim to love. Make sure to tell that to your next girlfriend. If you can get one, that is.
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I’m so tired of these little boys who come on this site and think they can judge other people.
Yet you read a blog written by someone who *only* judges other people.
Huh.
This is a well-made, well-played film that doesn’t go in the direction you think it will. I was surprised and impressed. It has the look of “Indecent Proposal,” but a far easy premise to relate to: If you have the opportunity to engage in a little extramarital fun with someone alluring and with minimal risk of getting caught, do you do it? Knightley and Worthington are both completely believable, and Mendes strikes the right tone as well. I saw it around the same time I saw Tom Tykwer’s “Three”: What a great double feature those two would make.