I have to say that I found the characters in this movie extremely engaging and likable . A lot of aspects of this plot made no sense to me, but that has nothing to do with how well the movie was made. The film pulls you in enough to like the main character in care about whether or not she succeeds. The use of silence and music we're both quite effective.
Despite all this Cinema verite charming awkwardness, the ending left me feeling dissatisfied, but that may have been what the director wanted us to feel at the end of such an odyssey.
Nonetheless the dissatisfaction stays with me and I wish they had at least made one point rather explicitly whatever it may be. What did you do this for? Did she learn anything from it? Did she come away with something revelatory that was with jettisoning her long term relationship?
I also could not accept that August somehow remains in the plot and seems to have very little by way of a realistic reaction to what happened. Put differently, his character just did not develop, and for that matter I'm not sure hers did either. I would like to have seen at least a little bit of dialogue from her that was more self-revelatory and less bashfulness and awkwardness.
People say life is about the journey and not the resolution, and that may be true, but in the film going experience you need to get the director's point of view of what happened. I don't really feel that that was accomplished, leaving me to wonder what happened to the last 82 minutes of my life.
Despite all this Cinema verite charming awkwardness, the ending left me feeling dissatisfied, but that may have been what the director wanted us to feel at the end of such an odyssey.
Nonetheless the dissatisfaction stays with me and I wish they had at least made one point rather explicitly whatever it may be. What did you do this for? Did she learn anything from it? Did she come away with something revelatory that was with jettisoning her long term relationship?
I also could not accept that August somehow remains in the plot and seems to have very little by way of a realistic reaction to what happened. Put differently, his character just did not develop, and for that matter I'm not sure hers did either. I would like to have seen at least a little bit of dialogue from her that was more self-revelatory and less bashfulness and awkwardness.
People say life is about the journey and not the resolution, and that may be true, but in the film going experience you need to get the director's point of view of what happened. I don't really feel that that was accomplished, leaving me to wonder what happened to the last 82 minutes of my life.
