Flirt

A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to commit ...more

The ambitious structural device of Flirt -- essentially telling the same story in three different contexts -- is an intriguing idea, but makes for a boring movie. This is simply because the repetition becomes tiresome, with audiences not only knowing what will happen next, but almost having the lines memorized by the end of one viewing. The first segment is a straightforward tale in New York, told in the humorous Hartley style with a lot of quick deadpan dialogue. Switching to the less-witty ...more