My Last Five Girlfriends

Based on the novel -On Love by Alain de Botton, writer-director Julian Kemp's My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan (Brendan Patricks. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the ...more

Of course, we understand that depicting behavior in a film isn't the same thing as endorsing it, but Duncan (an emphatically smarmy Brendan Patricks) is such a callow twit, and the film adopts his point-of-view so completely that My Last Five Girlfriends quickly becomes an unpleasant viewing experience. It's not just him. Julian Kemp's very loose adaptation of Alain de Botton's well-regarded mock philosophical treatise, On Love: A Novel, is hyper-directed and shrill. The conceit of presenting ...more