The movie wasn't meant to be enjoyable but realistic when it comes to pain, depression, marriage trouble and human personality. The technical quality is incredible from the locations, to photography and fancy wardrobe but the movie goes slowly like the main couple relationship and that is genius because you can feel exactly like Vanessa... bored, depressed, imprisoned. In most of the first third part of the movie, she looks like a paint, immobilized and it was meant to be that way. She acts in a way the character seems to be futile, nasty, nonsense and it's because she doesn't want you to like the character the same way the character doesn't like itself. I didn't like the script that much but it is not that terrible and I think the hidden mystery could be something more consistent... You are there, you feel there is something terrible causing all that pain but when it comes out you think: Was that all? Anyway, I still think it was a good job.
Review of By the Sea
