Men at Lunch (Seán Ó Cualáin, 2012)

What a mess this movie turned out to be. Advertised as a documentary about this famous photo it made me a bit intrigued. Concept of making full length documentary about nearly 100 years old photography sounded original and promising. Lots of territory to cover by trying to track down portrayed workers, photographer, circumstances surrounding it, maybe some technical stuff etc. Lots of possibilities indeed, it can be made almost as a mystery/thriller kind of flick. I was pretty excited to check it out.

But then it turned out that movie gives roughly 10% of its time to this fucking photography and the rest of it is just some incoherent rambling and jumping from one pretty unrelated topic to another. We learn everything about history of New York, great depression, immigrants, construction workers, some personal stories etc etc etc. At one point it got really absurd. I needed to go piss and when returning to the cinema after few minutes there were scenes from 9/11 on the big screen. Come on, give me a break...

Just skip it, it's not worth the price of a ticket. And besides, you'll probably be able to see it on National Geographic in a few weeks time.

2/10