As a fan of Emily Watson I tried really hard to like this film, but it just never captured my imagination from the start. It felt like just another gritty, warts n all poverty ridden, despairing film of people living life on the brink of despair.
The awful screeching violin music didn't help, neither did the difficult to watch relationship between Aileen and Brian.
Perhaps most of all was the fact that as there story did no engage me, I found I was missing plot points. Who was she? Where does she fit in? What was that scene all about I didn't understand it. What has what they've just said got to do with the film?
It got to the point where I didn't really know what the film was about. Yes I could have watched until the end and it may have become obvious, but what's the point of a story that you only understand at the very end?
On the plus side Paul Mescal seems to be developing nicely as an actor, and Emily Watson still knows how to act although her direction in this film was lacking I think.
It's definitely not a film I will put away and keep for a rainy day.
The awful screeching violin music didn't help, neither did the difficult to watch relationship between Aileen and Brian.
Perhaps most of all was the fact that as there story did no engage me, I found I was missing plot points. Who was she? Where does she fit in? What was that scene all about I didn't understand it. What has what they've just said got to do with the film?
It got to the point where I didn't really know what the film was about. Yes I could have watched until the end and it may have become obvious, but what's the point of a story that you only understand at the very end?
On the plus side Paul Mescal seems to be developing nicely as an actor, and Emily Watson still knows how to act although her direction in this film was lacking I think.
It's definitely not a film I will put away and keep for a rainy day.