The story: A 30 year old woman falls in love with a 13 year old boy.
Shot in an almost documentary style, on grainy Super8 or probably 16mm, and blow to 35mm.
lots of hand held camera.
Good things: the young boy actor was amazing. The film portrays a taboo onscreen, and doesn’t sensationalize or judge.
Bad things: the denouement took too long. The focus in the last portion of the movie was on the older woman, and I didn’t have much sympathy with her character after a certain point. While the idea of such an uneven relationship was intriguing, the inevitablity of the end made for a slow and laborious ending.
Perhaps in presenting the story in such a realistic way, with any slant or commentary, it made the relationship ordinary–trivial–and banal. Does not rise, in story arc or depth–to Lolita’s greatness.