Sunday, March 5, 1995

Features

Film check; Listings
George Perry

SOLITAIRE FOR 2
106 mins, 15

Gary Sinyor’s new film, which he also co-produced and wrote, is a mild attempt at British screwball romantic comedy. Amanda Pays plays Katie, a dinosaur expert and, although her lecturing technique is yawn-inducing, she attracts Daniel, who has made a mint teaching the secrets of body language. On every chance encounter she slugs him hard. When finally they introduce themselves, she explains that it is because she can read men’s minds. Alas, Mark Frankel is no Cary Grant and is unable to show why somebody with his blokish taste in cars and women should be bowled over by a Laura Ashley-clad academic. She would probably be better off with her Indian colleague (Roshan Seth), whose mind she cannot read because he thinks in Hindi.