I saw a Sarah Jessica Parker in the 1993 film “Striking Distance” and thought: was this before “Sex and the City”? Indeed, the series ran only from 1998 to 2004 and the first film is from 2008.
I never really watched the series, but I have seen enough of it to know the characters and the series had a bit of a ‘light entertainment’ ring in my head, so I wondered if the movie would be any fun after all these years.
For starters, the film is a lot longer than I expected: 2:25 hours. It plays after the series (obviously). The four ladies are approaching the age of 50 and I suppose the director took it that the viewers know the series, so the film just continues from there.
What I did not anticipate, is that the film is not really ‘light entertainment’. Sure, there is the sexually tinted humour, the direct conversations between the ladies, the openness about the female body and mind, but there is a lot of heartbreak, missed love, failed relationships, in short: a lot more drama than I thought there would be.
Basically the film is a very long episode in the series.
