Reviews

Movie took me by surprise from its very beginning opening credits. This movie is self conscious of its medium and its culture, about a director and his obsession with his actress, shot on video but switches between the film camera and the small digital camera footage used in the story. The story works in many different layers. It's a story of a director and his obsession to take charge and be in control. It's a love story between in a man and a woman who are both uncomfortable expressing their feelings. It's a story about film-making. It's a story about life, about men and women, about control, and desire. Movie has a slow pace that is actually adding to its truth and the emotions, helping the audience to explore the relationship between the characters. What makes the movie more beautiful and important the most, is its simplicity; almost all the film is happening in the confide space of Michael's apartment. There are two major characters and a few minor characters. The props used in the space are all chosen carefully for the purpose of adding to the story and the characters. There are great lines in the movie, smart script. The audio is also interesting as I realized the absent of ambient sound in the movie in some of the scenes that helps the story in creating a tense intimate environment for the characters and also for its audience absorbing them in the story and making the movie very effective also sexually without any actual sex scenes.