Long Time Since

The title could refer to the duration that's passed between now and the last time we saw Paulina Porizkova in a major film role, but looking at her upcoming Internet Movie Database credits, it appears that the Czech supermodel is ready to get serious about acting roles again. She's perfectly respectable in this 1997 indie finally making its way to local screens as a woman trying to recall a crime she may or may not have witnessed some two decades previous on New Year's Eve. There's very little to the plot, per se -- this flick's all about mood. Most of the film's shots are extreme closeups on minor details, or dreamlike images, as the characters talk offscreen. It's a visually poetic style, and likely to find hardcore devotees, especially among the ranks of Terence Malick and Marc Forster fans. Others will just find it painfully slow (even at less than an hour and a half), but you'll know where you stand after about five minutes.