The film, in which Kate Bosworth and Iddo Goldberg play a young married couple who travel to Italy and face the reality of their loveless marriage, is an undisguised homage to Roberto Rossellini's "Voyage to Italy" and, to a lesser extent, Michelangelo Antonioni's film "L'Avventura".
What troubled me also about this effort to proselytize is the undisguised attempt to exploit what they saw as an occasion of emotional vulnerability resulting from our grief.
The fact that it insists on getting engaged reveals the elephant in the room: underlying the crisis in Crimea and Russia's fierce resistance to potential changes is Nato's undisguised ambition to continue two decades of expansion into what used to be called "post-Soviet space", led by Bill Clinton and taken up by successive administrations in Washington.
The reactions to Hitchens's diagnosis of oesophageal cancer in June 2010 from his intellectual opponents – which ranged from undisguised glee to offers of prayers – testified to his stature as one of the leading voices of secularism since the publication in 2007 of his anti-religious polemic God is Not Great.
Last week, Mr Blunkett got himself into trouble, not for the first time, by reacting with undisguised incredulity to the decision of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to release on bail an Algerian, known as "G", who, the court accepted, had helped terrorists.
And driving these was not only opposition to gay marriage (and adoption), but also an undisguised effort to undermine the government as a whole.
Unhappy with the way Mr. Devuyst was playing a solo line, Mr. Dutoit ordered him to repeat it, faster and faster, in an undisguised attempt to humiliate him.
Last November, in an undisguised move to appease him, the federal government gave the Staatsoper a $1.75 million subsidy to bring the musicians' wages at the Staatskapelle up to par with those at the Deutsche Oper.
This form of film bears a stigma because of its undisguised aim: to influence ideas and change behaviour.
Part of his attraction was his undisguised ambition to be a famous journalist like the Washington Post's Watergate sleuths, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
