Pretty ropey family saga/ love story from Per Fly, 2003
The style is fussy, with no tripods in sight. Darting around
Constant cutting, in pretty basic continuity style. Usually a master-shot, but there’s a lot of shot/ reverse stuff
Shot in video, which along with the high contrast can’t help but make one think this is really suited to the television (it’s almost like a narrative documentary in its look)
The predictability of its style is matched with the content, to a laughable degree
Can see things coming telegraphed a mile off, all very obvious, as it churns along at quite a decent crack
Very clichéd plot, nothing out of the ordinary, with some pretty dodgy time-shifts
A plot with a lot of wholes in it too
Quite a fun game to play, stretching out these holes and playing ‘guess the next scene/ line / cut’
It is quite laughable, but a little bit endearing as well
Very theatrical, with completely over the top performances, and a lot of plot explaining to each other, in staging that is two dimensional at best (why was this film made?)
But it trops along enthusiastically, and the basic, very Shakespearean story of families and a love story (surely referenced somewhere in the theatre segments) makes it all rather sweet
Complete rubbish, and, ultimately, pretty tiresome, but, if one is in a good mood, can be watched without too much pain
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