Dir: Richard Glatzer
Starring: Alexis Arlette,lackie Beat. Craig Chester

Looking at Grief is like looking at the balance sheet of a business. You know that it is valid for the time it was put together, but you also know that things have changed.
It has feeling of surrealism, which continues for the first 20-30 minutes of the tilm, creating an uneasiness; a sense of dissatisfaction; interspersed with which the writer has thrown in a number of one liners or situations to make people laugh – hence the uneasiness!

At this point the film appears to come into focus, with 5 (or was it 6?) story lines being played out. The characters are very thin; an intentional ploy I believe to keep us disoriented.
The story is located somewhere in America, USA with a team of writers for a typical low budget soap. “Real life” is mixed with soap opera, with both ending up aSean extremely tacky parody.
Overall the film is competent, but not one that I believe is suited to the large screen; home video would seem to be the more obvious choice.

The fact that I walked away without remembering the character’s names, or the dead lover’s indicates how much impact it made on me.