Mobile Homes

Ali (Imogen Poots) and her son Bone live with her volatile boyfriend Evan drifting from place to place as they perform petty scams for money. They get into cock fighting and barely escape a police raid. She manages to run away from Evan with her son and hide in an empty mobile home.

The first part with the boyfriend is so muddled that it becomes flat. The narrative drive isn't there. It's in a faux docu-style filming until it gets to Callum Keith Rennie. It feels like the acting and the story is allowed to be unleashed at that point. The story still meanders around but without Evan, it is allowed room to breathe. This is not a movie with a destination. Of course, there is the inevitable reunion because the story has nowhere else to go. It's not that compelling to watch the destructive relationship between maddening Evan and the co-dependent Ali.

I won't give anything away. The mother and son are both portrayed by extraordinary actors. Opinions seem polarised regarding the story; if you can't relate then - hey, lucky you! Anyone with any similar experience will find this gut-wrenching, but ultimately uplifting. Reading other reviews I wonder why some pepole watch anything other than shiny happy family films.

This film tells the story of a woman with a young son and a irresponsible boyfriend. They drift around because they have no money.

The story is slow, and it is not very engaging. They seem to leave a trail of destruction wherever they go, and I just cannot feel for the family. It is hard to feel sorry for the woman because she just can't change her ways, for example she even has to keep stealing little items from the guy who helps her.

Never heard about this movie before and I don't remember how I stumbled on this one but I'm glad I did. For a drama Mobile Homes is certainly more entertaining than the average drama. Maybe because the story is about following "thrash" people, and by that I just mean not very smart and unfortunate since birth, with on top of that making wrong decisions after wrong decisions. It's always more entertaining to watch misery than happiness, that kind of voyeurism that makes us feel superior or just better. Imogen Poots did a really great job with her character, as well as the young Frank Oulton. The rest of the cast was also good. A movie with a gripping dark and hopeless story.

Can someone actually change their life? That is the question Director/Writer Vladimir de Fontenay (primarily a Short's director) poses in this gritty yet heart-wrenching look at wayward mother (Imogen Poots "That Awarkard Moment" 2014), her abusive and demanding boyfriend Evan (Callum Turner "The Only Boy Living in New York" 2017) - a role originally slated for Anton Yelchin before his death, her young impressionable son ( new comer Frank Oulton) and mobile home builder/seller Robert (Callum Keith Rennie "Californication "). What de Fontenay and cinematographer Benoit Soler do right here is place the audience directly in the seat of the actors, enable us to live their chaotic lifestyle and experience their cold Canada environment. Along with de Fontenay's terrific realistic direction, across the board the actors make the audience despise who they are and what they are doing, yet equally make the viewer wish them better life choices. Young Outlon and Keith Rennie stand out here because they are so contradictory to what the stories premise. Thus, they keep the audience glued to the screen and their characters. "Mobile Homes" is an indie film that probably won't make it to the big screen. However, you should find it in other formats. This film was screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival #PSIFF2018