Two Lovers at Footcandle

The Footcandle Film Society of Hickory showed Two Lovers as its June presentation at the Carolina Theater on June 11, 2009. After the showing of these movies, the members of the audience who wish to do so, share ideas about the film and tell how they felt about it, and discuss items such as acting, photography, directing, props, costumes, and more, sometimes a lot more.

This movie left me a little bit cold because I felt that the writer (or director) had to take over too much of the plot and make too many inputs to make the beginning get all the way to the end of the movie. In a good movie, the actors in playing the role of their characters, give the impression of taking over the story and making it all happen. It did have a happy ending, but that is only because the movie ended on a happy moment. What will happen next to those poor characters has got to be bad for everybody involved.

I loved the background photography. There was really good, solid, intuitive composition on most of the scenes in which the actors carried on stationary conversations with each other, and the constant excellent blending of colors by the photographers showed they had planned the scenes carefully and set up beautiful and artistic backgrounds to highlight the flow of action.