Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.
With Some Velvet Morning, LaBute returns to the provocative style that made his name.
– Mary Houlihan,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Dec 2013
fresh:
Though LaBute wrote this for the screen, I mistakenly decided that it must have originated onstage... because the oblique, heavily freighted dialogue seems too elegant and artful for a medium dominated by hacks.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
19 Dec 2013
rotten:
A sad example of what sometimes happens when a writer of gripping stage plays controls his own independent movie to his own selfish, labored self-satisfaction.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
18 Dec 2013
rotten:
I came away from this malevolent exercise with the sense that these two add up to little more than the sum of their awfulness.
– Ella Taylor,
NPR,
17 Dec 2013
fresh:
This smallest of films marks a welcome return to the world of interpersonal miniature for the writer-director. I hope he stays here a while.