Walk with Me

I was dubious about watching this movie at first. As often movies that are about lesbian love stories tend to be poor quality and with bad actors, too many awkward pauses and the characters come across as overly emotional.

However I am pleased to say that I was pleasantly surprised!

In this movie the acting is good, and the relationship between the characters seem authentic. They didn't try to overshoot it and put too many sex scenes in to appeal to male audience either.

It was a truly romantic movie, that seemed to be on equal footing to our straight allies for once, I was soo pleased to watch such a good quality movie.

One of the cast members referred to this movie as a "natural musical", and this movie lives up to that claim 100%. It's raw, vulnerable and very personal to the entire crew, which consisted mainly of people volunteering their time - that in and of itself made me love it more. My only critique is that I wished the director would've made bolder choices with certain scenes. That being said, this movie will stay in my heart for a long time.

Devin Dunne Cannon's efforts are not to go without mentioning. She brought an innocent rawness to her role as Amber Evans and did a beautiful job with the personal life choices her character faced.

The soundtrack is beautifully personal, and the songs Bridget Barkan sang did every one of those songs justice well beyond my expectations! She also made it impossible for me not to fall in love with her character, Logan Pierce.

All in all, the entire cast and crew captured deeply personal life changes and choices, making it a movie so many of us can relate to on our own personal levels.

There is a quote "We will regret more for the things you didn't do than for the ones you did" and this movie shows us that. But still, in my opinion, there are big issues in this movie. It's conventional, with a typical plot about same-sex relationships. I wish some scenes weren't so "Hollywood", so cliché like all the passages on the beach or the protagonist sitting on the kitchen floor drawing and the lover suddenly appearing through the bedroom door. The author and director Isabel del Rosal should be bolder, and more daring and build the screenplay closer to reality. This movie was more like an episode of "The Sex and the City"

One of the main characters is a quality vocalist, good acting all round, many touching moments, a solid 6 from me, no less.

A film many will love, certainly worth watching for most, well done.

Walk With Me (2021) was written and directed by Isabel del Rosal. It stars Devin Dunne Cannon as Amber Evans and Bridget Barkan as Logan Pierce.

Amber has left her husband, and needs a place to live. Logan is a realtor who finds her an apartment. There's a chemistry between them, almost from the start.

However, the course of true love never did run smooth. Societal and parental pressures work against the pair.

Forces pushing lesbian lovers apart is not a new theme. However, what makes this movie so good is the superb direction, the skill of the two lead actors, and the fact that the characters they portray are so interesting.

Amanda Walther is a noted Canadian singer and songwriter, and she wrote all the excellent songs in the film. (Logan is a singer, and when she sings in the movie she is dubbed by Walthers.)

We saw this movie virtually as part of Rochester's wonderful ImageOut, the LGBT Film Festival. This film has an IMDb rating of 7.4, which is very good, but based on only five votes. I thought it was much better than that, and rated it 9.