Jacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide and the two become close as they each find hope in the other.Jacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide and the two become close as they each find hope in the other.Jacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide and the two become close as they each find hope in the other.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaAs director Anthony Chen revealed when speaking to The Straits Times in Singapore ahead of the limited release in the country, the Liberia scenes was actually filmed in Greece at the height of the pandemic lockdowns around the world back in 2022. Filming began in March 2022 in Greece, ahead of the tourist season in May of that same year. Chen also revealed to The Straits Times that extras were used to make it look like a holiday resort as a result.
- Crazy creditsAt the limited release in Singapore at The Projector cinema, it began with a greeting and brief introduction from the director Anthony Chen before showing the actual movie itself.
- SoundtracksIt Would Be
Performed by Laura Mvula and Cynthia Erivo
Written by Laura Mvula and Cynthia Erivo
Published by Cynthia Erivo and Universal Music Publishing
Produced by Laura Mvula
Mixed by Troy Miller
Engineered at Noatune Studios by Kristoffer Rylander
Laura Mvula appears courtesy of Flamingo Records Limtied
Cynthia Erivo appears courtesy of The Verve Records
Featured review
Drift
To be honest, I was a little disappointed with this story. It's clear that Cynthia Erivo has put her heart and soul into it, but the story just has too many holes in it for me. We first meet her "Jacqueline" character as she wanders the streets of a small greek island town pinching the sugar sachets. Quickly, we discover that she has barely more than the clothes she stands up in, sleeps on a blanket in a sheltered cave and gets about blagging trips on tourist buses. Via flashbacks we are told of her privileged background in her native Liberia and of a love affair with a British woman (Honor Swinton Byrne) in London, and what's clear is that neither idyll seems destined to endure. The former, indeed, is played out across the course of the film in a rather brutally predicable fashion. Fortunately, she encounters tour guide "Callie" (Alia Shawkat) who's getting a bit fed up with the day-in day-out routine with her elderly visitors who just want to say they've "done" the place. Gradually the two start to bond and maybe there's a little light at the end of the tunnel for "Jacqueline"? Both women deliver well enough here, but there are just too many elements missing or under-developed. How did she get here for a start? Too much of her trauma has to be assumed or guessed at and not that I wanted graphic scenes, I did want to know a little more about just what made "Jacqueline" tick. The production is all adequate, and for a while the repetitive photography serves well to illustrate the dead-end nature of her existence, but I just think this missed an opportunity to develop the story of "Jacqueline" a bit more comprehensively.
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- Mar 20, 2024
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,077
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,000
- Feb 11, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $18,631
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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