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Jours de France (2016)
Surprisingly fun and entertaining film
I went into this knowing nothing, and I ended up really enjoying this film. The film begins with a man leaving his home unannounced, and wanders around France. In the mean time, his boyfriend tries to find his location using Grindr.
The film is broken up in segments that feel a bit like short films. There is a constant line of new characters being introduced, and brought into the story, and then quickly removed. I'd relate it in this way to "Before Sunrise", and films like it. While this has much less of a focus on dialog, it has a really amazing feel of adventure to it.
Some of these interactions are really successful, and some are confusing and even frustrating. But overall the film has a great flow to it, and I'd definitely recommend.
(Cinematography was also really nice in this!)
Closet Monster (2015)
Well shot film with some flaws
There are some great qualities of this film: The soundtrack is amazing, the cinematography is great, and there are some interesting and unique themes. However I was mostly disappointing with the film.
The main character, Oscar, is not particularly likable. He retains the "angsty teen" stereotype without many redeeming qualities to combat it; lots of whining, complaining, etc.
On top of this, the storyline is a bit all over the place. There are so many different subplots going on all at once, and they don't exactly mesh together very well. Lots of scenes happen metaphorically, but are displayed literally. In some ways this is very successful, but some it feels either confusing, or too obvious.
Overall I wouldn't necessarily suggest this movie, but I did enjoy some moments (the party scene was great).