For the movie’s heroine, Sonia (Kseniya Rappoport), a hotel chambermaid, the revelations that emerge at the double hour are 'visions’ of things left undone, which is to say, they represent a bad conscience.

After all, the owners are away. The Double Hour is currently in limited release. Here’s why Billy Porter and Lil Nas X are reading a beloved ‘Sesame Street’ book, Lil Nas X, Olivia Wilde, Billy Porter and Jonathan Van Ness are among celebs participating in the animated special “The Monster at the End of This Story.”. To say that nothing is what it seems assumes you are looking for the truth. Here, bad things happen at the double hour; characters who are supposed to be dead, turn out to be alive. Could the next time be blood? Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more. Watch the movie and try to figure out the answer....there is one. Former Gov. Sonia sees arms too, but they're loving arms, embracing her on the sheets. The story demands an enormous amount of her, and she is never less than up to the challenge, present and accounted for and doing convincing work no matter what. The slow-motion denotes Sonia's wish to protract these final minutes with Guido before she reveals her true identity. I'm shouting, again from the edge of said seat, for my horse to please move it's slow butt across the finish line. If you're offended by sex used callously to manipulate others, FUHGEDDABOUTIT! Or is it? While at an event she meets Guido (Filippo Timi), a former police officer who is a star in the speed-dating scene. The title “Double Hour” comes from the notion that the moments when a clock shows the same number twice — say 10:10, 11:11 or 12:12 — are magic, moments when wishes made might well come true. Sonia is in fact lonely enough that she goes to a speed dating event where she meets Guido (Timi), a brooding, handsome guy who is not exactly a picture of happiness either. The movie makes sense, more’s the pity, although you may need to see it twice to figure out how. At that point, Peggy Lee lyrics went humming through my mind ("Is that all there is? "), and veteran thriller fan that I am, I began to suspect the movie had more than one double. That's if you're lucky enough to avoid the movie's trailer, which just comes right out and tells you. Recognizing the genre of the moment, Sonia slyly asks Guido the double-edged question, "Do you bring them all here," with the lake only a few feet away. Earlier in the film, when Sonia doesn't go home with Guido, he settles for a one-night stand with a random stranger, showing us a darker side that differs greatly from the man whom the chambermaid sees, in which this singles scene regular curtly dismisses his distraught sex partner from a seedy-looking bachelor's pad. (The filmmaker has learned his Brian De Palma well.) After witnessing a suicide, she takes to the speed-dating scene (this is precisely what I mean about the rapid transitions that plunge us in cold). Toward the end, the movie reinvents itself yet again as a sort of sideways film noir, but you can forgive yourself if you’re too spent to keep up. Avoiding the advances the young Margherita might have acted on, she gravitates towards Guido. That dilemma can be summarized as “Torn Between Two Lovers’’ and it feels threadbare after all the narrative contortions. As Sonia's murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble. Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal Reteam for HBO Limited Series Adaptation of, Tom DeLonge Sets Directorial Debut with Sci-Fi Tale, Sophia Loren Returns to Acting in First Trailer for, Marlon Riggs’ Empathetic Anthems of the Black Queer Experience in America, Adam Nayman on Unpacking the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson. Both women see things. A look at California’s November ballot propositions. He throws a bottle at the door after the woman from the other side has the gall to call out for his phone number. 21 picks for weekend culture: Patti LuPone for song, Patton Oswalt for laughs. Your guide to the 2020 election in California. Playing with us (perhaps it is unintentionally funny) is Capotondi’s use of The Cure’s “In Between Days.” Maybe the Italians are more sentimental than us cynical Americans about our popular culture. Reminds me of Memento and is very similar to a excellent Spanish movie which i can't mention as it would be too much of a hint. If she screams, will anybody be able to hear her? Nothing in this enjoyably twisty, cool/ hot, genre-grafting Italian psychological thriller by Giuseppe Capotondi is what it seems. There are no featured audience reviews for The Double Hour at this time. What then could turn into a heist movie, becomes something more cerebral and haunting. Maybe Guido, the kind and sensitive man whom Sonia meets at a speed dating club, in actuality, is a serial killer who makes tapes of his murders. In the aftermath of what seems to be a crime and a tragedy, Sonia finds herself in uncharted territory, dogged by a detective (Michele Di Mauro) and a creepy hotel guest (Fausto Russo Alesi) and haunted by a real or imagined Guido. Movie reviews Close. Hauntingly beautiful and cruel. Smoldering and slick, “The Double Hour’’ wants to mess with your head. Fall Film Festival Recap: Best & Worst of TIFF, Telluride, and Venice.

Is she paranoid? SBS World Movies Weekly Highlights: 26 October - 1 November, SBS World Movies Weekly Highlights: 19 - 25 October, Top movies to watch this month: October 2020, Best movies over 2.5 hours to stream at SBS On Demand, now that you have the time, 11 Comedies You Can Stream Right Now If You Just Need A Good Laugh. I was very disappointed in this movie. And the more you try to solve the narrative puzzle, the more you may want to watch it again — or at least argue about what’s real. See All Audience Reviews The Double Hour Quotes. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Which studios released the best movies in 2011? Not so much a genre movie as a movie that switches between genres -- and comes out on top. Review | "The Double Hour" Matthew Lucas May 29, 2011 0 Comments. Surviving the incident, Sonia is left in the cold (along with the audience) as she searches for a missing part of herself. As a point of filmic reference, the filmmaker cuts to the shotgun mic back at the villa, while Guido, a private security guard, gives Sonia a guided tour of the wooded premises.

Though both are understandably wary, we can feel the beginning of a connection between these guarded individuals. Written by: Alessandro Fabri, Ludovica Rampoldi, Stefano Sardo, Unrated (as R: nudity, sexuality, mild violence). This is one of those thrillers which is diabolical and diabolically difficult to describe in any truly meaningful way in a review. The Double Hour Movie Review. Even when the film (written by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo) seems to be relenting and telling the truth, there is always the chance it’s holding out on you. This Italian romantic thriller, directed by Giuseppe Capotondi in 2009 and coming to local theaters after a tour of the international festival circuit, woos the viewer with sexy leads, inscrutable motivations, and a hell of a curveball at around the 60-minute mark. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia, a chambermaid at a high-end hotel.

The plot may take the risk of skating at the limits of credulity, but her performance always makes us believe. The grounds they're traversing on looks to be a sizable piece of real estate. In the end, The Double Hour has the visceral impact of, say, mystery TV. Ksenia Rappoport and Filippo Timi won acting awards at the Venice Film Festival for their smoldering work as a Slovenian hotel maid and a security guard who meet at a speed-dating event only to see their budding romance interrupted by violence…maybe. The exhilarating second act of the film is the equivalent of waking up in a bathtub full of ice with your kidney missing. Sonia gets off with a night watchman called Guido (Filippo Timi) but before anyone can say 'can we still be friends," the relationship is soured by a third party. With its extremely tight editing and breakneck pace, “The Double Hour” is strung through with small jolts that may or may not be leads in a circuitous pursuit of the truth. John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. This is Polanski territory, rich in psychological ambiguity and with few solid signposts, and Capotondi gives it a good, chic go. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. Half-Italian and half-Slovenian (the character was adjusted to suit Rappoport, a Russian actress who speaks fluent Italian), lonely Sonia works as a chambermaid in a hotel in Turin, a city that cinematographer Tat Radcliffe has intentionally photographed as bleak and nondescript. Movie & TV guides. As a reviewer, this is challenging to write about beyond telling you the film indeed delivers the genuine excitement it pitches. Review: Wayne Wang and Chang-Rae Lee collaborate on touching ‘Coming Home Again’, Director Wayne Wang and writer Chang-rae Lee adapt Lee’s New Yorker essay with the deeply moving drama “Coming Home Again.”, ‘Outnumbered’ co-host Melissa Francis is off the air and her status at Fox News is in doubt. It is a most engrossing one, commanding our attention even as the filmmaker tries to slip this or that hole in the plot past us.

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