The write up of the film talks about a young woman losing her notebook on a train, a young man finding it and their ending up in a forest. The truth is the film is something else entirely with a large chunk of it is watching a young lady go through her life smoking, bathing, brushing her teeth, complaining, pining for a lost love and sitting. We hear a voice over some one reading from a notebook. A guy appears about half way in and they are in the forest... Why? I'm not sure. I do know the cat who occasionally appears is the most interesting thing on screen.
A film desperately in need of a cheat sheet, FANTASY is a bore.
Arranged to look meaningful and with the occassional smutty confession dropping every now and then to keep the art house snob who won't look at porn hooked, the film wanders around for 79 minutes trying to say something. Yes, the film looks great and the performance by Louise, which one write up says is the basis of the film, is wonderful, but the truth is the editing is a mess and instead of giving us handholds to move through the tale we get banal sequences that just exist and make us wonder why we are being asked to endure it.
Give it points for looking great and sequences that in different hands might have played better, but take them away for not giving us an arrangement that makes this anything we want to endure
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