The film, while showing promise and alluding to something more than appears on the surface, was quite monotonous to me. I have to say that the acting and direction seemed at times quite amateur. It left me with a feeling of dissatisfaction. As someone said the director is interested in a minimalistic approach to conveying a story and I imagine that he succeeded. It felt more like a rough sketch than a film. In fact it felt to me like 3 short films. Nevertheless, there was something intangible in the characters, something allusive. Again the minimalism lends itself to an ambiguity. Personally, I like ambiguity to a degree but this film was more like a line drawing than a painting. The opening in fact sets the tone for the film. The music that the director chooses, the credits and the acting all give you that feeling that you are not watching real human beings fleshed out but character studies.
Review of In Another Country
