Raincoat 2004

I was hoping Raincoat would be transcendent, and I did like Aish and Ajay together, and both acted well. My criticism is really on the set up of the movie itself. It's based on the Gift of the Magi by O Henry, which I didn't know going in, but gleaned pretty quickly. The way it is filmed is very claustrophobic as much of it is when Ajay, a down on his luck unemployed man, visits Aish, his childhood sweetheart who married a rich man, in her apartment in Calcutta. It's like a stage play, really, just filmed. And I contrast with Lootera (also an O Henry story based film) that also had key intimate scenes when the romantic couple were locked together in a room, but Lootera also broke...