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3602011 | 110 min | R | 2.39:1
“360” is a story of sexual gamesmanship that takes a familiar multi-character journey around the globe. Director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardner,” “City of God”) has numerous subplots to juggle and societal urgencies to dissect, leaving “360” a sharply paced picture that’s more about ephemeral highlights than a lasting dramatic sting. A smoothly manufactured, intermittently upsetting look at impulses and desires, the feature boasts an exceptional cast to carry the brief but difficult challenges facing the characters, while Meirelles keeps the film humming along, braiding these strangers into a single display of yearning, albeit a craving that takes the occasional unsavory turn. 
An Eastern European woman obsessed with easy money, Mirkha (Lucia Siposova) joins a prostitution ring, dragging along her sister, Anna (Gabriela Marcinkova), for support. Her first client is Michael (Jude Law), a lonely businessman married to Rose (Rachel Weisz), who’s desperate to end her affair with a younger man. Laura (Maria Flor) is a South American excited to leave Europe and return home, striking up a conversation with John (Anthony Hopkins) on a plane ride. Traveling to Phoenix to identify the body of a dead girl who may be his runaway daughter, John is eager for company, planning to dine with Laura once their layover troubles are resolved. When a chance meeting at an airport café with Tyler (Ben Foster) proves to be irresistible, Laura invites the skittish man back to her hotel room, unaware that he’s a convicted sex offender. And an Islamic man (Jamel Debbouze) faces a religious crisis when his feelings for a married co-worker (Dinara Drukarova) become too much to bear, unaware that the woman is dealing with her own relationship troubles. Loosely adapted from the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler, “360” is scripted by Peter Morgan, the acclaimed writer of “The Queen” and “The Last King of Scotland.” Although the temptation is there to drill into the sickness of the characters with a violent display of misery (a.k.a. the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu approach), Morgan is more fascinated with chance encounters and near misses, keeping the material surprisingly light for such a profound topic. It’s hardly a romantic comedy, but there’s a certain ease with the violations here that keeps the dysfunction approachable. “360” is less about punishment and more about observance, placing the frazzled characters in disorienting situations to see how they react. 
It’s a twisted road ahead for the community of “360,” with all of these characters tied together in some fringe manner, with a few directly stepping on one another’s toes as the story unfolds. Meirelles is prepared for the collisions, using split-screen and fluid timing to link the subplots together, playing up themes of possibility and risk, finding these lonely souls greeting romantic and sexual chance back into their lives, despite most being unprepared for such a radical change to their routine. It’s an efficiently directed picture, opening starkly with Mirkha’s recruitment photo shoot, soon taking off on a series of disruptions and disappointments, each plot thread containing surprises that invite further study. Some, including Tyler’s itchy encounter with Laura, are explicitly suspenseful, watching the convicted rapist deal with a consensual act of seduction, unable to process such ease of access on his way to rehabilitation. John’s connection to the coupling is equally intense, as the skittish father figure once again confronts the sudden loss of a young woman in his life, triggering a crippling sense of déjà vu. 
With a jazzy score and keen sense of transitions, “360” only flirts with unrelenting darkness, preferring to lock into a mournful tone of missed opportunities, while a few characters are successfully snapped out of their slumber by their mistakes, strengthening bonds that were once about to break. It’s nomadic narrative in some respects, only seeking violent punctuation in the disappointing finale, with Meirelles more in tune with moderate acts of heartbreak and emotional development. “360” also has the benefit of a superb collection of actors, who use what little portion of the tale they’ve been allotted to shape searing portraits of damage, guilt, and hope, instilling the picture with a full sense of humanity in a structure that often invites repetitive flashes of artificiality. Starring: Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, Jamel Debbouze, Johannes Krisch Director: Fernando Meirelles » See full cast & crew |
 
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