Grief – 1993 (Movie Review)

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)