Make Up

I enjoyed watching this. It did not easily fit into any genre, and was all the better for that. A rather episodic film, with no clear linear narrative, but it still retained my interest throughout.

It really captured the bleak, barreness of an out of season caravan park, with its motley collection of residents with nowhere else to go.

A bit overloaded with symbolism at times, but definitely worth watching in my view.

Newb filmmaker Claire Oakley did a fine job at directing, but the writing was paced slower than a snail's pace. The 86 min runtime felt like an eternity, and there were far too many unnecessary random few-second shots. It made matters worse that lead Molly Windsor's role was drab and depressing. It's a good metaphorical story, but should've been a short film instead, which is up Oakley's alley. Cinematography and score were decent. It's a 6/10 from me.

A young women discovers more than she expected when she goes to live with her boyfriend on a bleak Cornwall caravan park as the season closes. Conjuring an array of potential outcomes from the off, it's left to the viewer to fill in the gaps and provide the explanations for their meaning as the haunting, occasionally claustrophobic and suffocating sequences play out - for real or imagined. Ultimately a voyage of discovery, that stays in the shallows, doesn't sail too far from the coastline, narrating a familiar tale but done so in an imaginative way.

I'm not quite sure what I've just watched .

The trailer indicated that this was some sort of Psychological horror but far from it .

It starts off with a young woman who goes to stay with her long term boyfriend in a caravan park in Cornwall and starts to she suspect her boyfriend has cheated on her but when her suspicions ease it she who embarks on tasting the forbidden fruit.

I quite like the first half this film. The non trippy part , you might say , but the the longer the film went on the weirder it got and less likeable the film became.

The performances are ok but not enough to give the film any heft and in the end it pretty much just fizzles out despite the decisions Ruth makes .

Disappointing.

I'm so disappointed. For the first half I was so into it! The location, the vibe, the atmosphere. But then by the final part, the wheels had well and truly fell off the car. The story just completely caved in on its self. It's literally like two different movies split directly down the middle.

One is a mystery, suspense movie about finding evidence of an affair and the other is a "finding who you are" movie. But the insane thing is, the first "plot" is completely dropped and just forgotten about.

There are lots of pointless things that happen too. Like they feel like they are going to be plot points but then they just aren't?

The writing was like "cagey". No one spoke I'm full sentences. "Jade has a reputation" "what reputation?" "*silence*". Like why did no one talk properly. They just eluded to things and then never followed up on them.

Iv been super harsh on this movie but it's because I loved so many parts of it, particularly the atmosphere. Sea side locations AND caravans are totally my vibe so I was sold. And Shirley was completely insane and I needed more from her. But the the rest of the movie just tore it's self apart from the inside.