Synopsis
Don and Janna are a married couple struggling to reconnect after the death of their daughter. They answer each other’s phony classified ads and begin an elaborate game of pretend on a series of blind dates, hoping that this ruse will allow them finally to talk openly about the demise of their relationship in the wake of tragedy. In playing out their various roles—such as a blind man in search of a sighted woman, a woman in search of a dance partner, and a reporter in search of an aggressive female interviewee—Don and Janna feel free to ask each other probing questions, explore the meaning of humor after calamity, and nearly fall in love. However, when their conversations can’t seem to break out of a circular pattern, never transcending the wall between them, they face the reality that perhaps overcoming heartbreak is not in the cards for them.
Stills
Stills by Frits Berends
Credits
Year: 2008
Running time: 80 minutes
Language: English
Cast
Patricia Clarkson – Janna
Stanley Tucci – Don
Crew
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
Written by: David Schechter and Stanley Tucci
Original screenplay by: Valery Boutade and Kim van Kooten
Based on the film from: Theo van Gogh
Produced by: Gijs van de Westelaken and Bruce Weiss
Executive producer: Nick Stiliadis
Creative consultant: Doesjka van Hoogdalem
Director of photography: Thomas Kist
Editor: Camilla Toniolo
Production design: Loren Weeks
Costume design: Vicki Farrell
Original music: Evan Lurie
Line producer: Ellen Havenith
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