Finding Lady Bird and Barbie (both also reviewed) to be utter delights,I decided to check auteur film maker Greta Gerwig's directing credits, which led to me discovering a title I had not heard of, which I decided to watch before the arrival of the weekends.
View on the film:
Appearing in every single scene together, co-stars/co-writers/ co-directors Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg give incredibly raw performances as Mattie and James, via the duo charting the initial loving, flirting warmth the duo share gradually shattering into disconnection, with Gerwig brilliantly expressing in her body language, the hollowness which the relationship has sunk into, whilst Swanberg (who also edited the movie) captures James attempting to catch the spark that was at the centre of their relationship, which has now now long since burnt out.
Spending all night over the weekend with the couple, directors Swanberg and Gerwig present an unvarnished Mumblecore atmosphere of rustic, hand-held close-ups on the couple attempting to hold hands naturally, which wonderfully reveals under hard natural light in jagged wide-shots, the growing, unspoken awareness they each share, of their love fading away.
Appearing to be working from an outline, Gerwig and Swanberg give the dialogue an excellent, naturalistic quality, shining in quiet, subtle moments when the couple struggle to mention the breakdown of the relationship being the elephant in the room, with the passion and intimacy they shared when having sex in the past, now being replaced by long silences that hang in the air, and a timidness when either attempts to revive the relationship over nights and weekends.
View on the film:
Appearing in every single scene together, co-stars/co-writers/ co-directors Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg give incredibly raw performances as Mattie and James, via the duo charting the initial loving, flirting warmth the duo share gradually shattering into disconnection, with Gerwig brilliantly expressing in her body language, the hollowness which the relationship has sunk into, whilst Swanberg (who also edited the movie) captures James attempting to catch the spark that was at the centre of their relationship, which has now now long since burnt out.
Spending all night over the weekend with the couple, directors Swanberg and Gerwig present an unvarnished Mumblecore atmosphere of rustic, hand-held close-ups on the couple attempting to hold hands naturally, which wonderfully reveals under hard natural light in jagged wide-shots, the growing, unspoken awareness they each share, of their love fading away.
Appearing to be working from an outline, Gerwig and Swanberg give the dialogue an excellent, naturalistic quality, shining in quiet, subtle moments when the couple struggle to mention the breakdown of the relationship being the elephant in the room, with the passion and intimacy they shared when having sex in the past, now being replaced by long silences that hang in the air, and a timidness when either attempts to revive the relationship over nights and weekends.