Clever

While it's not as breathtakingly clever and witty as JOY OF LIFE, it was a great deal of fun. The male lead is particularly good. The older actors deft, and it seemed they were having a great time.The story has plenty of twists and turns, sometimes popping briefly out for meta, and other times thoroughly deconstructing the hoary old cliche of couples forming a bond while little kids, and then staying true until adulthood, refusing to marry anyone else.One case is disastrous, another painful, and one . . . forgotten. There were a few falters--while the two actors playing the secondary leads were excellent, some of their scenes tended to drag, but I blame the screenwriters for the lag and the repetitive emotional beats.Other than that I loved it, and have marked it among those few I plan to rewatch.

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