I luv this film - it's not a BIG film - it's what it is and charmingly not pretentious.
Peter Sarsgaard - who is always dark, stays just this side of the line of creepy - and Rashida Jones both play their roles with understated authenticity - subdued, graceful.
Rashida in particular is always so sincere and "real" in her performances, it actually saves the concept of the film from being too distractedly abstract conceptually. (Just random, but Jones is for real pregnant in the film so it's sort of fun to see how the camera work and costuming are effected to underplay that.)
The film tends to be, imo, a tad too under-lighted and monotone - no pun intended - but I get that directorial choice and overall it blends well with the storyline and the way Sarsgaard and Jones have chosen to present their characters.
However, the cinematography is quite well done with a number of "photographic" moments that are quite beautiful to look at in and of themselves - e.g. Interior business office shots looking through glass doors w. A static horizontal patterning ornamentation, or a train going thru a bridge with the bridge scaffolding as the static foreground.
Interestingly, the sound scoring is unremarkable - I don't think the editorial team optimized the various tonalities of the tuning forks that could have been better emphasized.
So, bottom line, it's a well-done work and an interesting thing to watch evolve thru it's story line.
I liked it. :-)
Peter Sarsgaard - who is always dark, stays just this side of the line of creepy - and Rashida Jones both play their roles with understated authenticity - subdued, graceful.
Rashida in particular is always so sincere and "real" in her performances, it actually saves the concept of the film from being too distractedly abstract conceptually. (Just random, but Jones is for real pregnant in the film so it's sort of fun to see how the camera work and costuming are effected to underplay that.)
The film tends to be, imo, a tad too under-lighted and monotone - no pun intended - but I get that directorial choice and overall it blends well with the storyline and the way Sarsgaard and Jones have chosen to present their characters.
However, the cinematography is quite well done with a number of "photographic" moments that are quite beautiful to look at in and of themselves - e.g. Interior business office shots looking through glass doors w. A static horizontal patterning ornamentation, or a train going thru a bridge with the bridge scaffolding as the static foreground.
Interestingly, the sound scoring is unremarkable - I don't think the editorial team optimized the various tonalities of the tuning forks that could have been better emphasized.
So, bottom line, it's a well-done work and an interesting thing to watch evolve thru it's story line.
I liked it. :-)