That's Not Me

This played at the Sydney Film Festival to a packed house, and was an absolute delight.

Alice Foulcher, plays an identical twin, Polly, whose sister Amy is winning all the acting roles. Things get worse and worse for Polly, as she gets mistaken for Amy, and passed over for auditions due to being "the other one". Her parents seem oblivious to what she is going through, and it only gets worse when her sister is all over the internet due to dating Jared Leto. Whereas Polly, when she googles herself, is nowhere.

All the cast are strong. Belinda Misevski as flatmate Ariel is great. So is Rowan Davie as Oliver, the modern-day hookup from hell.

The ending is bittersweet albeit a bit quick, and leaves you wanting more. There would be room for a sequel: perhaps Polly could have another (even more disastrous) stab at Hollywood.

It is mystifying how they made it on a budget of $60k, it easily looks like a $1m+ production. The only time it looked slightly tighter on budget is with the LA scenes, but they're also some of the funniest and most poignant. Isabel Lucas is brilliant here as another Australian actress who has kind of made it in Hollywood, but is still struggling for roles. According to the director, Lucas's scenes (supposedly set in LA) were actually filmed in Australia due to scheduling, with Foulcher the only cast member actually filmed in LA. The continuity is so flawless that you can't tell.

Definitely see this one if you get the opportunity. While it's an Australian film, it's not self-consciously so. It's simply a very funny contemporary comedy that happens to be set in Melbourne.

Written and starring Alice Foulcher... as twins, in show business. People recognize her from tv .... but she's the other, less successful sister Polly! fun premise. fun jokes. low-key, awkward humor. the grind of brutal auditions, combined with people mistaking Polly for her own sister Amy, over and over. a really funny moment when a creep who Polly sees now and then starts telling the same, lame story he told her on the last (bad) date. some really funny lines in here. we can feel the anguish Polly feels as her family and friends constantly talk about her twin Amy, who is getting all the breaks. a lot of humor in this film, with some life lessons. or something. good stuff. showing on roku channel. directed by Greg Erdstein, who had done mostly shorts prior to this.

Comedy IS difficult. It's difficult to do, and it's difficult to get right. This film, sadly, fails on both accounts, and more ...

The movie is shot OK, looking quite presentable, and the acting from a lot of the characters is alright too. But where "That's Not Me" really falls into its deepest hole is in failing to meet up to the expectation of its apparent genre - it's just not funny. Not even remotely. In actuality, it has more than a few cringe worthy scenes throughout which were clearly intended to be comedic, but aren't.

In short - the movie is uninteresting, boring even, with little or no plot and/or emotion to make you care what's going to happen next. There is also nothing dynamic, either visually or in the storytelling. In shorter than short - it doesn't do what it says on the tin.

I actually quite liked this little Aussie movie but really didn't like the lead actor. She wasn't believable and generally not very likeable.

That said, the supporting cast, script and dialogue were pretty good.

A watchable movie with some good insights into the difficulty of achieving fame.

This film is Gregory Erdstein's first full length feature film (10 previous credits for short films) as director, producer and co-writer alongside Alice Foulcher who was also the lead.

It's a cute film directed fairly decent, but with a sloppy story that really had no point to it, and was certainly not a comedy (I did not laugh once).

It's clearly a low budget Aussie flick that made a decent attempt to tell a story, but failed so in the screenplay. In the beginning, it was hard to tell which twin was in certain scenes. Although the story was based on the struggles of one of the twins chasing her acting career and riding the coattails of her sister, at the end of the film you are left saying "that's it? so what?". There was no point to this film.

The acting was however fairly decent, the score a little too obvious in certain scenes, and the editing could have been tighter. This film missed the mark in telling the story better. Certainly not 10/10 material the other two fake reviewers posted, of which are clearly a spoiler plot summary. Would I recommend it or see it again? Nope. It's a very generous 6/10 from me only because it's a low budget indie Aussie flick and for its "cuteness" factor.