Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
A semi-autobiographical work constructed as a dialogue between director Jan Nemec and his dead mother. The film combines haunting and evocative images of Nemec's journey to his mother's graveside with material from his life - his marriages to screenwriter and designer Ester Krumbachova and singer Marta Kubisova, his filming of the Russian invasion in 1968, and a compelling montage of his exile in California. A counterpart to Kafka's 'Letter to the Father', it is both formally complex and strangely youthful, echoing the visual power of his earlier films.
