Ewan McGregor is a relationship-phobic chef, until he meets the equally relationship-phobic epidemiologist Eva Green. But as their romance tries to flourish, the world comes tumbling down around them: A mysterious pandemic slowly progresses: amidst bouts of extreme sentimental crises, people lose their smelling, and then they lose their taste, and then they lose their hearing, and then... the film ends in a blind desperate embrace...
A depressive elegiac little poem directed by the peculiar director of Young Adam and Hallam Foe (two interesting films that may leave you alienated but this is exactly their strength), David MacKenzie. Shot in an oblique way, its pace slowly progressing till the final darkness, assisted by Max Richter's soundscape. Not without its drawbacks: Connie Nielsen as Green's sister is underused, and the loss of senses makes you want more exploration on it, but it is the love story that matters to Mackenzie, and as a romance it is one of the most tragic, but reassuring of the sense of love (or is it despair of loneliness?), you will ever see. And it does help that Mackenzie does justice to one of the most impressive presences ever to grace the screen, Eva Green.
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