Imagine we live in a world where people only communicate by saying one sentence. That's it, followed by a long silence where nobody moves as if we all let the words sink in.
This is the world of Guernsey, slow, silent, morose. Even before the major incident of the movie, which is supposed to bring the main character into a kind of shock, she doesn't seem keen to talk or ask questions. She now just becomes suspicious of her partner whom she has plucked away from her sister. This sister has one big chip on her shoulder, she spits venom at every comment and makes every sullen teenager look like a warm personality.
At the end we lose patience with this non-verbal "interaction", worst of all it seems to be resolved by again one sentence followed by an obedient silence, sigh.
The movie struggles with time and place. As one can see in the end credits the so-called Guernsey scenes were filmed in Spain so it suddenly makes sense that the gardener is called Juan and the new house of the father looks like a modern Spanish country retreat. Why this Guernsey connection? Is the director trying to make some comment on tax-dodgers, an altogether weightier subject but rather out of place in this glacier paced personality crisis.
This is the world of Guernsey, slow, silent, morose. Even before the major incident of the movie, which is supposed to bring the main character into a kind of shock, she doesn't seem keen to talk or ask questions. She now just becomes suspicious of her partner whom she has plucked away from her sister. This sister has one big chip on her shoulder, she spits venom at every comment and makes every sullen teenager look like a warm personality.
At the end we lose patience with this non-verbal "interaction", worst of all it seems to be resolved by again one sentence followed by an obedient silence, sigh.
The movie struggles with time and place. As one can see in the end credits the so-called Guernsey scenes were filmed in Spain so it suddenly makes sense that the gardener is called Juan and the new house of the father looks like a modern Spanish country retreat. Why this Guernsey connection? Is the director trying to make some comment on tax-dodgers, an altogether weightier subject but rather out of place in this glacier paced personality crisis.