Length: 04:18
Genre: Romance
Date: 2011
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Logline: A visiting French student tries to find inspiration while out taking photographs.
This is a pretty straight forward film. Slightly uninteresting in terms of subject matter but the story has a nice feel to it by the end. Two people talking at a bus stop isn't the most visually stimulating thing in the world but the edit does a good job of keeping the eye busy and maintaining a steady pace. The well chosen font on titles and subtitles gives a fresh contemporary look and fits in well with the crisp picture quality.
Laetitia de Lafore and Jonny Purchase give equally sound performances and carry off looking freezing cold very well though not always completely naturalistic when delivering dialogue. Having the girl give voiceover in French works okay to bookend the piece as well as differentiate it from the main sequence. The choice to make her character foreign helps give her story more layers but could possibly have worked just as well if she hadn't been.
Other aspects such as audio, lighting and camera are all consistently of a high standard and the crew certainly look like they know what they're doing. Characters can be clearly heard without background traffic drowning them out while the well lighten scene doesn't feel overly artificial within the surroundings. An ambient soundtrack adds to the mood as well as keeping the modern feel. With high production values the only thing that kept this at a three star rating was that the story didn't really do anything for me. Personal opinion of course but it makes this film easily forgettable.
This is a pretty straight forward film. Slightly uninteresting in terms of subject matter but the story has a nice feel to it by the end. Two people talking at a bus stop isn't the most visually stimulating thing in the world but the edit does a good job of keeping the eye busy and maintaining a steady pace. The well chosen font on titles and subtitles gives a fresh contemporary look and fits in well with the crisp picture quality.
Laetitia de Lafore and Jonny Purchase give equally sound performances and carry off looking freezing cold very well though not always completely naturalistic when delivering dialogue. Having the girl give voiceover in French works okay to bookend the piece as well as differentiate it from the main sequence. The choice to make her character foreign helps give her story more layers but could possibly have worked just as well if she hadn't been.
Other aspects such as audio, lighting and camera are all consistently of a high standard and the crew certainly look like they know what they're doing. Characters can be clearly heard without background traffic drowning them out while the well lighten scene doesn't feel overly artificial within the surroundings. An ambient soundtrack adds to the mood as well as keeping the modern feel. With high production values the only thing that kept this at a three star rating was that the story didn't really do anything for me. Personal opinion of course but it makes this film easily forgettable.
Best Bit: That you're left wondering about what will happen to these two characters.
Worst Bit: Takes a while to get going.
Final thought: Wonder if this would look kind of creepy and sinister if the roles were reversed?
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