Late Night Shopping is a fairly imaginative character film based around a group of people who work night shifts.
The film succeeds in it's subject matter, thanks to a good script containing all sorts of musing dialogue about life, philosophy and relationships that never feels overwritten, enabling the reality of the piece to flourish. The characters are all well drawn, on the surface, there's the shy one, the one with girlfriend problems, the mysterious one and the ladies man, but thankfully over the course of the film thanks to it's character based nature the characters become real and interesting.
The plot largely takes a back seat to allow us to spend time with these characters until it develops into a more conventional romantic drama sort of thing towards the end. I'd liken it to the film Swingers (one scene in particular is identical) due to the "mates hanging out" theme of the film, with a subtle hint of beat culture (the film contains a few Kerouac and Salinger references).
A good film to watch, and an achievement in solid, decent film-making.
The film succeeds in it's subject matter, thanks to a good script containing all sorts of musing dialogue about life, philosophy and relationships that never feels overwritten, enabling the reality of the piece to flourish. The characters are all well drawn, on the surface, there's the shy one, the one with girlfriend problems, the mysterious one and the ladies man, but thankfully over the course of the film thanks to it's character based nature the characters become real and interesting.
The plot largely takes a back seat to allow us to spend time with these characters until it develops into a more conventional romantic drama sort of thing towards the end. I'd liken it to the film Swingers (one scene in particular is identical) due to the "mates hanging out" theme of the film, with a subtle hint of beat culture (the film contains a few Kerouac and Salinger references).
A good film to watch, and an achievement in solid, decent film-making.