LoveTrue (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Alma Har'el
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Three stories of disappointed love in Alaska, Hawaii and New York, each told by its protagonist, but with actors filling other roles.
Review:
A plump girl who dances at a strip club but whose brittle bone sufferer boyfriend leaves her; a stoner surfer who fathers a son not of his own making; an abusive pastor whose children stand by him because their mother kept the truth from them. Such are the admittedly poignant and uncommon stories between which we flit in this free-style documentary, which is at times video diary, at others installation artwork. It all becomes quite desultory and enervating before the end, and does not really shed any new light on what it is to love someone. At best it hazards, through the spokesmanship of its pastor character, the contention that people are far too free with the phrase, 'I love you', without truly appreciating what it entails.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Alma Har'el
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Three stories of disappointed love in Alaska, Hawaii and New York, each told by its protagonist, but with actors filling other roles.
Review:
A plump girl who dances at a strip club but whose brittle bone sufferer boyfriend leaves her; a stoner surfer who fathers a son not of his own making; an abusive pastor whose children stand by him because their mother kept the truth from them. Such are the admittedly poignant and uncommon stories between which we flit in this free-style documentary, which is at times video diary, at others installation artwork. It all becomes quite desultory and enervating before the end, and does not really shed any new light on what it is to love someone. At best it hazards, through the spokesmanship of its pastor character, the contention that people are far too free with the phrase, 'I love you', without truly appreciating what it entails.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Alma Har'el
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Three stories of disappointed love in Alaska, Hawaii and New York, each told by its protagonist, but with actors filling other roles.
Review:
A plump girl who dances at a strip club but whose brittle bone sufferer boyfriend leaves her; a stoner surfer who fathers a son not of his own making; an abusive pastor whose children stand by him because their mother kept the truth from them. Such are the admittedly poignant and uncommon stories between which we flit in this free-style documentary, which is at times video diary, at others installation artwork. It all becomes quite desultory and enervating before the end, and does not really shed any new light on what it is to love someone. At best it hazards, through the spokesmanship of its pastor character, the contention that people are far too free with the phrase, 'I love you', without truly appreciating what it entails.