The best reason for a movie to exist is the pleasure it provides, and by this exacting standard, 

“By the Sea” is one of Hollywood’s few star-centered successes to have been released this season. 

It’s a romantic, erotic drama that’s told with an unusual blend of rapture and coldness, of overwhelming yearning and clinical detachment—

and, above all, the movie has images that go far beyond the recording of performances and the framing of action in order to make a melancholy and mysterious visual music. 

The movie was written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt, who stars in it, along with Brad Pitt.

At times, it falls short of its ambitious mark, but Jolie Pitt sets the target further and higher than do many far more celebrated filmmakers.

It’s the story of a couple on the rocks, pun intended to suggest the ice cubes in their drinks and the landscape of their conflict. The action takes place some time during the Watergate hearings, in the early nineteen-seventies, in and around a stone-faced, boulder-strewn village on the French Mediterranean coastline (though the filming was actually done in Malta). 

There, a stylish couple, played by the Pitts, travels in a stylish convertible and moves into a high-ceilinged, decadently decorated room in a gussied-up grand old hotel squeezed into a rugged hillside facing the azure waters.

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​Source: Chicago Tribune