Waiting For Forever, directed by James Keach was the movie chosen for night two of the film festival. The cast list was quite good for an indie film, Rachel Bilson, Richard Jenkins, Blythe Danner, Jaime King and Tom Sturridge. That, along with an interesting sounding blurb about childhood best friends who sort of lose touch, at least one if them does. Will (Sturridge) follows Emma (Bilson) around the country for years while working on his juggling career without her ever knowing how much he loves her.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't what I got.
Will's character comes off as odd and slightly retarded along with being stalkerish and living in his own dream world.
Emma seems insincere and doesn't really connect with her parents. Her father is dying, which brought her back to her hometown in the first place, but she doesn't seem to really care.
Overall, it felt pretty disconnected and unrealistic in an awkward way, not in a "that would be great if it COULD happen" way.
Then there was Emma's boyfriend, who had no reason to be in the movie at all. He was used as some kind of plot device which was completely unneccesary to the story or the other character developments.
Blythe Danner did manage to bring some solid acting to the film as did Richard Jenkins, but that is to be expected from such high caliber actors.
In the end I walked away uninspired and untouched by the film.
The short film that was paired with this movie was called Extension directed by Tyler Byrne. The film was extremely insightful in it's simplicity. There was very little dialogue, but the expressions carried the message they were trying send.
Seeing a boy plugged in with an extension cord was an odd concept. Watching him try to break free was extremely touching. We are all tied to something in our lives, sometimes all we need to do is look to our loved ones to help us overcome our obstacles.
It was a great short film.
The after-party was at SL on west 14th. The Don Julio flowed once again and the place was packed.
Highlight of the evening? Seeing the beautiful Jane Seymour in person!
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