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It is easy to like charming Marguerite Moreau in “Easy” but it is hard to care much for the film. Writer-director Jane Weinstock focuses her first feature on the difficulty for a single young woman to find true love. Although scarcely a new subject, problems of the heart are still on the dating agenda. But after a while the relationship search in “Easy” becomes tedious despite the film’s sincerity.
Jamie Harris (Moreau), a California gal, is tired of hopping into bed without finding commitment. She’s bright in her work that requires her to find clever names for products, but her personal life is going nowhere. She hits upon a new idea, remaining celibate for at least three months so her mind can rival her libido. It’s a ditsy notion to start with.
As life would have it, Jamie ends up with a choice between John, an Anglo-Indian poet (Naveen Andrews,) whom she swoons over. The idea that he was her teacher in college adds to the mystique. But he’s hardly reliable. There’s also the more stable but less overtly desirable Mick (Brían F. O’Byrne). Every film of this sort needs a character cliché, and that lot falls to an acupuncturist who dispenses advice along with his needles.
The plot becomes more and more convoluted with diminishing returns. O’Byrne’s performance is best. He’s a fine actor, and I can still remember him looking chillingly straight at me--or so it seemed--in his role as the imprisoned child killer in the play “Frozen.” A Magic Lamp Releasing release.
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