Length: 13:40
Logline: A woman's dream of being a professional photographer is hampered by her guilt over her sisters death and her commitment to run the family business.
Something isn't working for me in terms of the structure of this drama. It feels like there's perhaps been a missed opportunity to really heighten both the conflict and the emotion by deciding to give more precedence to the reveal instead. While this makes for a fresh perspective on an old idea, without letting the audience in on the protagonist's internal conflict right from the beginning, it means that the effect is somewhat lessened.
When watching for the first time, the sleeping in the water with clothes on scenes may be seem a little odd and confusing, although the concept is a sound enough way of delivering exposition about the sister's relationship. There's some nice use of symbolism and metaphor as the theme of following ones dream becomes quite literal.
Isabelle Defuat as Juliet, is competent and engaging. She's good at adding emotion to the well written dialogue. Eleonora Pariante as older sister Anne, is more controlled and rigid but this works well with her icy character. Anne having a much heavier accent than Juliet takes a bit of getting used to but the writing makes sure that audiences can understand why this is.
The poor lighting lets this down a lot. Internal shots are too dark and the lack of lighting makes this look washed out and dull. In contrast, the external shots, which have relied on natural lighting, are much more vivid and look better. The rest of the production is of standard quality and there's an impressive camera pan in the end sequence. The soundtrack is forgettable but sits nicely unobtrusively in the background when used.
Overall, the underwhelming arc means this remains a bit flat. We don't really see Juliet suffer enough and this means her end success isn't as powerful as it could be. She just looks a bit tired and drained and we don't see how not being able to follow her dream has effected her in a negative way. Other than that, it's okay.
Something isn't working for me in terms of the structure of this drama. It feels like there's perhaps been a missed opportunity to really heighten both the conflict and the emotion by deciding to give more precedence to the reveal instead. While this makes for a fresh perspective on an old idea, without letting the audience in on the protagonist's internal conflict right from the beginning, it means that the effect is somewhat lessened.
When watching for the first time, the sleeping in the water with clothes on scenes may be seem a little odd and confusing, although the concept is a sound enough way of delivering exposition about the sister's relationship. There's some nice use of symbolism and metaphor as the theme of following ones dream becomes quite literal.
Isabelle Defuat as Juliet, is competent and engaging. She's good at adding emotion to the well written dialogue. Eleonora Pariante as older sister Anne, is more controlled and rigid but this works well with her icy character. Anne having a much heavier accent than Juliet takes a bit of getting used to but the writing makes sure that audiences can understand why this is.
The poor lighting lets this down a lot. Internal shots are too dark and the lack of lighting makes this look washed out and dull. In contrast, the external shots, which have relied on natural lighting, are much more vivid and look better. The rest of the production is of standard quality and there's an impressive camera pan in the end sequence. The soundtrack is forgettable but sits nicely unobtrusively in the background when used.
Overall, the underwhelming arc means this remains a bit flat. We don't really see Juliet suffer enough and this means her end success isn't as powerful as it could be. She just looks a bit tired and drained and we don't see how not being able to follow her dream has effected her in a negative way. Other than that, it's okay.
Best Bit: Second last camera shot and the death scene.
Worst Bit: Bad lighting
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