Heaven Can Wait

The film has no desire but to please, and that’s its only compulsiveness; it’s so timed and pleated and smoothed that it’s sliding right off the screen.

Beatty can carry off this sort of whimsy by playing it straight and keeping the ludicrous premise credible. But the film is dogged by the nagging vision of what might have been.

This is a very sweet movie to watch, the pleasant cinematic equivalent of light summer reading.

In its 100-plus minutes, I get the feeling that it's a fantasy comedy that lacks a certain celestial charm and suffers from narrative inconsistencies, even with the chemistry between Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. [Full review in Spanish]