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Eva (2010)
A Dreadful Third-rate Soap Opera
I've just seen this movie on cable and couldn't believe how cheap a soap opera may become. It is simply awful: a most conventional story, poor performances (what is Patrick Bergin doing in this mishap?), a squeamish, boring violin music all the way through, a commonplace direction proper of a TV saga (sometimes I had the feeling that commercials were coming) and a gallery of stereotyped characters that seem to have been taken out from an old magazine for spinsters and love dreamers make this movie an unendurable experience. Everything is over-cooked and over seen; there's no surprise in any one of the dramatic incidents; sometimes you may wonder whether some sequences were cut out since there's no clear explanation about the dramatic evolution of the characters and the development of different events. The conclusion you get by the end is that Eva is and has always been quite silly. Why didn't she do a thing after suspecting that Tudor was hiding something? The way she decides to leave her husband is also so absurd, almost funny. Was her husband a congenital imbecile? And that Tudor lover, coming and going, absent when most needed...How boring! Unless you feel pleasure reading Danielle Steel or Corin Tellado's pink novels, avoid this. It's like watching an after-lunch, cheap melodrama (it reminded me of The other side of midnight, that horrendous soap- opera masterpiece)in which there's nothing interesting to discover.