25/47
But Julie decides to keep quiet
Scenario
Julie is a star player at an elite tennis academy. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club’s players are encouraged to speak up. Official submission of Belgium for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025.. This is not a good movie. It’s a nice enough story though. But the script could have used some tweaking. It’s as if they had a few scenes in mind and then just worked around those.
Why does she keep quiet?
It has a few good scenes (the one with the confrontation in the cafe comes to mind) but that’s not enough to keep this thing afloat. The actors are all on top of their game. Especially, the young semi tennis pro that plays Julie. She really does her best with the material she’s given. But that is also not enough. There are just too many questions left unanswered: What actually happened between Julie and Jeremy? One minute she has a problem with the new trainer, the next she will only be trained by him (I mean, What the actual F..?) So, story wise, this is just a big FAIL!
Lighting is non-existent
But here comes my biggest problem with this movie. This director just doesn’t know how to shoot a film!! The framing is just of and wrong. There were shadows everywhere. In one scene you can only make out two silhouettes talking to each other. He never cuts in a scene between different subjects. It’s as if, they only had one camera available.
What are they teaching in film school nowadays??!!
Now maybe (and I’m just guessing here), he thinks this brings peace and calm to his movie. But to me, it was just annoying as hell. And if you do decide not to have any cuts in your movie, then make sure to stay in a master shot and let us (the audience) glance and look where we want/need to. No, this director decides for himself, we don’t need this information. So, in a lot of scenes, we see people talking to other people whose head is (half) cut off or you just can make out half of their faces. Also, was this movie shot on an Iphone??!! When I saw that Nicolas Karakatsanis was DOP on this, my mouth fell to the ground!
And that’s fine
He really phoned (pun intended) this one in. Sometimes, it was just unwatchable. For me, all of this comes down to one of 2 things: Either this director doesn’t master the basis of film making, or he just doesn’t care. Maybe he just wants to tell his stories. But film is a visual medium. And it just was mishandled here. And I, as a paying customer, want more.
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