“The Future,’’ - turns out to be a tragedy about human disconnection - about how our timidity and self-absorption ruin any chances we might have to genuinely know each other - and it has an unyielding bleakness that deepens as it goes. Halfway into this film, I wanted to smack the mopey bohemian couple played by July and Hamish Linklater; by the end, I realized the director was smacking them for me, and hard.”
