Two people meet each other at a graveyard, where after they decide to talk about their loss in a bar and go to the beach.
The short movie has amazed me in a positive way. Most of the time I am not a fan of Belgian movies, because they do are very badly made. They are badly directed, acted, etc. But with this short flick, that wasn't the case. The acting I found to be relatively good. They were no Oscar-worthy performances, but it's not as bad as the acting in an average Belgian film. The directing was also handled well. The director knows how to create a good looking shot, and he has shown it multiple times in this short. His directing style isn't one-sided, which is a very good thing. He has his own style and has transferred it to the movie. Often he used static shots, but he interchanged them with a scene, which utilized a hand held camera, or one that was moving around the place so it wasn't just standing there for a minute, without a single movement. Those still shots were nice to look at but if he had used them continuously the movie would've been boring, and now he has created a stylistic looking movie. Michaël De Nijs also used a couple of fun techniques. Like by showing the contrast and similarities between the two protagonists at the ending of the movie. In that scene Sara gets home, where she has her boyfriend/husband, waiting for her and ready to comfort her. And on Robrechts side of the story, we see him also getting home, in a similar looking house as that of Sara, but he doesn't have anyone who's there to comfort him in the harsh situation he is in at the moment. This only enforces how he felt during the day that was shown in the short, gives you more inside on how he felt, and what the support of Sara did to him. Another thing I liked from the movie, took place in the beginning of the short film. This was the introduction to the characters, which we were going to star in the movie. First they showed the character leaving the house, then letting the name appear of the actor who plays the character, to then repeat this for Robrecht
I mostly look at a movie from an objective perspective, so that only a really good film can also make me watch in a subjective sense, to make me involved in the story. With this short, that wasn't fully the case. I get why some people can relate to the characters, especially if the viewer his or hers child has passed away, or if the viewer has children, but with me that wasn't the case. I only started to show sympathy with the character of Robrecht at the end of the movie, when their coming home gets shown from two sides.During that scene we also see that Robrecht is a religious person (His house is decorated with catholic items, and he has the clothes of a priest hanging on his wall), but he keeps on losing faith in it, because of his loss. We see this by him looking up at the clothes, then looking down and sighing. This also gets confirmed in the scene where he is riding his bike, with Sara sitting on the back of it. She keeps on singing songs that are about God, or at least related to him. Robrechts reaction to it is by saying that she should stop singing. It are the subtle character developments that I like to find in a movie.
I wasn't interested in watching the short in the first place and after watching the short, the story did indeed not interest me in the first place. They try to do a lot to keep a realistic feel to the short film, but the main premise sounds completely unrealistic to me. What the story is good for is to set up the characters, well mostly one of them. Robrecht was handled very well and at the end of the film, I cared a bit for him. They also tried to make you care for Sara, but for me they never succeeded in that part. It was also pretty obvious when the writers put in some character development for Sara, which didn't really help to make it more believable.
That was my review. Here's a little synopsis of it. Like I've said before in my review: the short movie surprised me. It wasn't the greatest short film I've seen, but defiantly not the worst. The subtle character developments were fun to see and they were acted out well. The short is worth a watch. That's why the short gets a 7.3/10 from me.
The short movie has amazed me in a positive way. Most of the time I am not a fan of Belgian movies, because they do are very badly made. They are badly directed, acted, etc. But with this short flick, that wasn't the case. The acting I found to be relatively good. They were no Oscar-worthy performances, but it's not as bad as the acting in an average Belgian film. The directing was also handled well. The director knows how to create a good looking shot, and he has shown it multiple times in this short. His directing style isn't one-sided, which is a very good thing. He has his own style and has transferred it to the movie. Often he used static shots, but he interchanged them with a scene, which utilized a hand held camera, or one that was moving around the place so it wasn't just standing there for a minute, without a single movement. Those still shots were nice to look at but if he had used them continuously the movie would've been boring, and now he has created a stylistic looking movie. Michaël De Nijs also used a couple of fun techniques. Like by showing the contrast and similarities between the two protagonists at the ending of the movie. In that scene Sara gets home, where she has her boyfriend/husband, waiting for her and ready to comfort her. And on Robrechts side of the story, we see him also getting home, in a similar looking house as that of Sara, but he doesn't have anyone who's there to comfort him in the harsh situation he is in at the moment. This only enforces how he felt during the day that was shown in the short, gives you more inside on how he felt, and what the support of Sara did to him. Another thing I liked from the movie, took place in the beginning of the short film. This was the introduction to the characters, which we were going to star in the movie. First they showed the character leaving the house, then letting the name appear of the actor who plays the character, to then repeat this for Robrecht
I mostly look at a movie from an objective perspective, so that only a really good film can also make me watch in a subjective sense, to make me involved in the story. With this short, that wasn't fully the case. I get why some people can relate to the characters, especially if the viewer his or hers child has passed away, or if the viewer has children, but with me that wasn't the case. I only started to show sympathy with the character of Robrecht at the end of the movie, when their coming home gets shown from two sides.During that scene we also see that Robrecht is a religious person (His house is decorated with catholic items, and he has the clothes of a priest hanging on his wall), but he keeps on losing faith in it, because of his loss. We see this by him looking up at the clothes, then looking down and sighing. This also gets confirmed in the scene where he is riding his bike, with Sara sitting on the back of it. She keeps on singing songs that are about God, or at least related to him. Robrechts reaction to it is by saying that she should stop singing. It are the subtle character developments that I like to find in a movie.
I wasn't interested in watching the short in the first place and after watching the short, the story did indeed not interest me in the first place. They try to do a lot to keep a realistic feel to the short film, but the main premise sounds completely unrealistic to me. What the story is good for is to set up the characters, well mostly one of them. Robrecht was handled very well and at the end of the film, I cared a bit for him. They also tried to make you care for Sara, but for me they never succeeded in that part. It was also pretty obvious when the writers put in some character development for Sara, which didn't really help to make it more believable.
That was my review. Here's a little synopsis of it. Like I've said before in my review: the short movie surprised me. It wasn't the greatest short film I've seen, but defiantly not the worst. The subtle character developments were fun to see and they were acted out well. The short is worth a watch. That's why the short gets a 7.3/10 from me.