Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy slow contemplating movies, I'm a big fan of Gus Van Sant's Gerry and Last Days, the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, but all those authors have something to say and a vision of cinema ... here you just have clichéd shots of spider web, rusty things and rain falling for more than hour, boys hugging and being bored, you wonder why they actually love each other ... they don't have sex, they're just semi catatonic, bored and melancholic, they just lie there or walk and talk about uninteresting things, you keep hearing that one of them is too clever for this town, after a while you get the message. The first time I watched it I kept dozing off, I practically slept through the entire film, that's how boring it was, I could hear people mumbling banalities that pass as profound and poetic dialogues, bird chipping and rain falling ... then I watched it again ... and it was really as tedious as watching paint dry ... the pictures are pretty-ish but nothing great either ... the soundtrack is awful too ... like hearing a student rehearsing piano themes from TV movies ... so this film is good if you want to have a nap but that's about it ...
Review of Last Summer
