| Title | Grief |
| Year | 1993 |
| Director | Richard Glatzer |
| Writer | Richard Glatzer |
| Actors | Craig Chester
Illeana Douglas Jackie Beat |
Looking at Grief (1993) is like looking at the balance sheet of a business. You know that it is valid for the time it was put together, but you also know that things have changed.
Grief (1993) has a feeling of surrealism, which continues for the first 20 to 30 minutes of the film, creating an uneasiness: a sense of dissatisfaction; interspersed with which the writer has thrown in several one-liners or situations to make people laugh- hence the uneasiness!
At this point, the film appears to come into focus, with [or was it 6?] storylines being played out at the same time. I believe the characters are very thin; an intentional ploy to keep you disorientated.
the movie is located somewhere in the USA, with a team of writers for a typical low-budget soap. ‘Real Life’ is mixed with soap opera, with both ending up as an extremely tacky parody.
Overall the film is competent, but not one that I believe was suited to the large screen; home video would seem to be the more obvious choice.
The fact that I walked away without remembering the character’s names, or the dead lover indicates how much impact it made on me.
Links:
- IMDb – Grief
- Amazon – Grief [currently £5.28 to £34.37]
- Photographs – A Gay Movie Review
- Wikipedia – Grief (film)
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