Since the screening I have been pondering whether I was unduly harsh in my review – perhaps my criticisms were just because I wasn’t in the mood for that sort of movie that night. Fickle Jetsetting Joyce! So thanks for your comment, it’s good to get another point of view as I suspect I’m probably in the minority.

Jetsetting Joyce

The lead character would not be particularly likeable to some. But I think that his recklessness and inability to cope, following his wife’s death, was entirely human.

With respect to the other women characters, I saw it as there being an attraction but not a significant one. Men, after all, seem to have a separate way of perceiving sexual attraction that falls beyond their emotional circumstances.

Essentially I think that Joe’s flaws and mistakes were the central theme of this picture. That his elder son would choose to go somewhere he felt he was wanted and felt loved more, did not surprise me. After all don’t many of us look to find a place where we feel we truly belong?