Friendship's Death

Odd mix of quasi-science fiction with "My Dinner with Andre", plenty of inane babble which is rarely inspired or inspiring, utilizing a "Year of Living Dangerously" theme. Very stagy, with some intriguing shots, but very static and dry. Seeing a young Tilda Swinton -- fresh from theatre -- is the film's main attribute.

It is not a very strong story.no fancy visual effects, no big actions, no big story line conflicts. The conversations are not that intriguing by today standard since the movie was made almost 40 years ago. But, but, i just love to watch Tilda Swinton's performance. Such a unique actress, beautiful, charming, great acting.

What I love about SF is the focus on the question: What is a human? This question does not each sifi-movie ask. But this one does. For today it may be a bit boring, because there is not much new in the dialogue. This didnt bother me at all, because I like repeat. You can hear one sentence from 100 people and you get 100 sentences, because they said it diffrently. It is intresting what they say in the movie but it is mostly intresting how they say it and who. Tilda Swinton makes an atmosphere that drinks you in this hotelroom, where the conversation is placed. I just saw it. And tomorrow I want to watch it again.

Set in Amman, Jordan during Black September, when the PLO attempted to take over the kingdom by force, this odd little movie features an ongoing dialog between a British journalist and an android in the form of an attractive woman. She's the survivor of a contact mission to Earth. The political dimension of their dialog largely falls flat, but the ideas about robots that the movie explores are fascinating. Look for the discussion of the typewriter - she complains that his pounding of the keys was 'hurting it' and of the vacuum cleaner, which she likens to a rat.

I saw this on tv many years ago,I might have seen it at the cinema. The British Film Institute,who backed the film,have released it on blu ray. I just watched the blu ray. I give no plot spolilers. A dialogue heavy film with 2 actors in every scene. This film is a real nostalgia piece for me. In the 1980s I spent many hours in the Filmhouse Edinburgh which was/is the art house cinema for the city. I saw all sort of BFI sponsored films with strange plots and locations and scripts. Like in a film I was fascinated by a young women who seemed to be at all the films I went to back then. I wonder was she a film professional,a critic,was she Tilda Swinton one of the stars of this film. One oddity of the film,there are many,is that Swinton is listed as the star but Bill Patterson was much better known than she was then.