The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Wenders' 3D-labelled Golden Lion candidate is a major letdown in Venice this year, it is literally a French "talkie" between a man (Kateb) and a woman (Semin), who sit in a charming garden and converses about inconsequential trivialities with chutzpah, which are sex-obsessed, self- emancipating, boastfully elusive, sometimes even out on a limb of being pretentiously scatological, but film is intrinsically a lesser medium to bestow a full credit to the ineffable weight of words, especially when its visual monotony inevitably will take a heavy toll in its feature length. rw3541511 mark.