The World to Come
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In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
- Released: 2021-02-12
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
- Stars: Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, Kim Ciobanu, Daniel Blumberg, Andreea Vasile, James Longshore
- Director: Mona Fastvold
Comments
- wynnehoe - 24 January 2024
Very thought provoking piece of cinema
Beautiful sets, lovely film scoring. Camera framing is intentional. Its a very rich inner life portrayed if one knows how to read the scene, pretty much the same as how Tallie and Abigail functions.
It gives much to ponder about and should not be reduced to a "swoon- worthy frontier" film. It looks at tasks, rules and duties. Characters have nuances, that we can sympathise for. It looks at a world with a limited vocabulary as it finally expands. To generalise it into simply lesbian desire does it a disservice. It forces the viewers to relook at the privileges that we have currently.
The voice over is woven seamlessly in. This is a great piece of screenwriting that its almost theatrical in nature; a rare time in cinema to have a film and plat intersect.
Its a great piece of work. - ap-95173 - 19 December 2022
Well, we made it to the end.
If you like an understated film, you'll probably like this a lot more than I did.
It's well acted but the problem for me was the script - I found myself really zoning out from the conversations. Films can use time-appropriate language and be captivating but this just didn't have that quality for me - they used language that suited the time but the dialogue had me so disinterested. It seemed to be a lot of effort to really listen to what was being said and for a film that's supposed to draw you into the emotion and anticipation, it was very flat and didn't leave me invested in it at all.
If felt like a lot of nothing and was a slog to get to the end of the film, even though it wasn't the longest.
