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Adrian’s nosy neighbors. He enchants two old wid
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Meanwhile, Buenos Aires is under siege by a seri
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Could Jack be behind these grisly killings, or is
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Adrian as crazy as his mother? Or both? Or neither?
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leave some viewers dizzy, but those who hang in for
Apartment Zero has so many plot twists it might
the full 124-minute running time will be well
rewarded. Firth and Bochner, always a treat for the
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eyes, excel in their respective roles of obsessive
emotional wreck and charismatic chameleon, each
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they might not hold up» particularly 19 years later
Frank, but they could hardly be further from the
when, cinematically, some of the same themes have
engaging neurotics of Apartment Zero. The title
been recycled so often that what seemed shocking
character (Andrew Elvis Miller) appears as the film
then feels merely routine now.
opens talking to a shrink about being a troubled
Happily, such is not the case with A/wrtment Zero.
homosexual. The shrink is Dr. Apsey, a notorious
Q>lin Firth plays Adrian LeDuc, a priggish, nervous,
reparative therapist type. As it happens, Frank is not
repressed cinema club owner. When not screening
quite the confused queen he portrays; in fact, he’s
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a gay journalist who’s gone undercover, at the behest
visits his shriekingly insane mother in the madhouse.
of his domineering lover, Jonathan (Paul Provenza),
Poor attendance at his cinema forces him to inter
who’s also a therapist, to expose Dr. Apsey as a char
view boarders for his luxurious apartment (actually
latan who should have his license revoked.
mom’s). Enter hunky, seductive Jack Carney (Hart
Unfortunately, lying is not one of Frank’s high
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In the tradition of many a bisexual interloper
ized in this area by his domineering lover. The film
from movies past (think Teorema or Something for
at this point becomes a power struggle between
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