Enduring Love

It's catch up time I guess. Okay, this movie called "Enduring Love," you probably haven't even heard of. But once I saw Samantha Morton and Rhys Ifans (from "Notting Hill"---you know, the funny roommate?) were in it, I decided to check it out. The poster and reviews talked of it as a meditation on "faith, science & love," so how can you not be even slightly curious as to what a movie like that is really like?

The movie begins with a tragic accident, catapulting the story into a creepy and forceful story made up of regret, guilt and love. The title has two meanings, and the second one is not recognizable until you've seen the movie. Just don't even try. But anyways, the movie builds around this entire opening event and it rarely stops for air once it gets going. It's a slow, mesmerizing type of dramatic filmmaking that makes for much thinking and great performances, while at the same time, grows eerily uncomfortable with the audience. It's not a thriller, although many critics are calling it that...even though at times, I was a little pinned to my seat. It's more of a psychological, intellectual exercise in the unlimitedness of love and all that encompasses it. I'd recommend it for people who like hard, thinking movies that are uneasy to process and nearly impossible to dismiss or forget. "Enduring Love" is the type of movie that lingers in the head long after the movie ends, and leaves a haunting, chilling and mysterious uneasiness on the brain and heart. Definitely original and definitely worth seeing.