I spend an inordinate amount of time on YouTube and one of the things I like to do on there is watch movie trailers - a LOT of movie trailers. If I like something enough, I look the movie up online and download it. Aaaand since I was discovering so many good films that probably never go mainstream, I thought I'd feature a film here every once in a while. Hence, Feature Film Friday! (because today is Friday)
This week's film is an indie gem called 'And While We Were Here' which stars Kate Bosworth, Iddo Goldberg and Jamie Blackley.
SO. To be honest, the main thing that made me consider watching this movie is because of the very attractive, very young male lead. Yes. Jamie Blackley - who looks so ridiculously good (he has a TATTOO ON HIS CHEST, did you know that?!) that I would gladly sacrifice my book collection just for him to make out with me.
A quick summary: And While We Were Here focuses on Jane's (Kate Bosworth) marital life and her attempts to write a book about her grandmother's experience in the war. It's set in an island called Ischia which is near Italy and all the main characters say grazie way too much. Her husband is there for work (he's a cellist) and she's trying to write a book about her grandmother's experiences in the war. While she's there, she becomes romantically involved with a young American ex-pat.
Anyway, the film was pretty okay. It wasn't amazing and it did fall flat sometimes (story and dialog-wise) but the scenery is stunning and it has such a feel good summer fling kind of vibe that it makes you all giddy and warn inside as you watch two people fall into something that's not quite love, but something pretty damn close to it. I think that made you want to keep watching until the end, because you want to find out what happens to the characters. (Plus Jamie Blackley. I mean, come on.)
Okay now this? This was the damn takeaway for me. This was what made me love this film , besides Jamie Blackley my sun and stars. I just adore this scene so much. Like, this nineteen year old kid, who's all braggadocio and carefree and YOLO-y, is goddamn nervous to be around this woman. She probably makes his heart do cartwheels or something! And come on, when a guy says he makes you nervous does that not send you into a flurry of feels? That was what sold it to me, to be honest. At that point I was, 'Okay. I officially love this movie.' (Caleb's last scene made me want to die of feels. </3)
I feel really bad for the husband, though, because it doesn't seem like there was anything egregiously wrong with their relationship apart from their standoffishness and lack of curiosity towards each other. I'm pretty sure they could have tried to make it work. She could have talked more instead of staying silent and waiting for him to read her mind or something (because let's be real, that's never going to happen) and he could have talked more or whatever. I just feel like they both could've fixed their relationship if they wanted to. (but at the same time it's Jamie Blackley so I don't completely blame Jane. LOL.)
But the movie was nice to look at - I love the warmth that the film gives off - and there were a few other gems strewn across the dialogue that made me think 'oh wow, words make me cry???'. Pro tip: Listen very well to the recordings. It's easy, it's light, it doesn't take too much to absorb the story. I'd say it's a great casual flick, like if you wanted to relax a little bit and watch something that doesn't have a heavy storyline but at the same time it makes you think. It's a gentle assault on the senses. I'd definitely recommend watching on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Also, it has Jamie Blackley! I MEAN JUST LOOK AT HIM <3
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