27 May 2025

Sunday

Sunday: A fat homeless Jewish man (played by an actor I had never seen before or since) awakes to begin another hopeless Sunday.  He leaves the shelter and begins wandering the wasteland streets of Queens, NY.  A down-on-her-luck limey actress (played by an actress I had never seen before or since) spots the wandering Jew and mistakes him for a famous movie director.  Starved for human contact, the homeless Hebrew pretends to be the movie director.  The former Shakespearean actress feels as homeless in grim Queens as the Jew, and though it is soon apparent the Jew is a faker, the actress continues to willingly believe otherwise, as the charade adds a bit of hope to her crummy life, as well.  Eventually the homeless Jew and the limey lady have the least energetic sexual encounter ever depicted on film.  Interesting character study with one of those annoying ambiguous endings.

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  1. Doug Holland27 May, 2025 12:32

    Haven't seen it and won't, but Sunday sounds like the kind of tripe I've seen a thousand times already. Extraordinarily unlikely scenario, written and performed as if by the Akron Repertory Theater, presented as profound, and almost certainly praised by critics.

    Here in reality, the shelters have no room for 99.9% of the homeless, and sadly, very few pretty blondes want a sexual encounter or any contact at all with any down-and-outter. I give it two thumbs down, without the torture of seeing it.

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    1. Henry L. Racicot27 May, 2025 13:45

      Roger Ebert liked it, so that validates everything you said.

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