![]() ![]() ![]() Though I wouldn’t deny the parallels, they generally have more to do with surface effects than overall meaning. Several reviewers have noted this picture’s resemblance to In the Company of Men, Tape, and Safe. And that points to a kind of respect for its audience, not merely a respect for its leading character. Yet The Business of Strangers doesn’t have any ideological axes to grind, though it’s interested in ideological exploration. This sounds like some PC brief, which isn’t generally a good reason for recommending a film. The most notable thing about The Business of Strangers, as Andrew Sarris recently suggested in the New York Observer, may be the conjunction of three facts: that the central character of this first feature is a middle-aged woman executive, that it was written and directed by a man, and that it isn’t misogynist. ![]()
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