"Love Story"

4 April 2025

3 mins 25s

Watch out!

View the film before reading the review. Okay, watched it? Then we can continue. This film for Project Yellow Light brilliantly unsettling to watch if you don't know its objective. There is thing that must happen in many a household when watching a drama on TV... you know the scenario - a driver is paying more attention to a conversation than the road and you find yourself yelling at the screen.

More often than not, it's just bad filmmaking. The audience is not being unsettled deliberately... it's just that the director hasn't taken account of how distracting it can be if a driver's attention feels errant.

Not always though. Sometimes it serves a purpose, and is a portent of tragedy. This film has been perfectly calibrated by director Quentin Deronzier to sit between the two ideas. Watching it, you aren't sure whether the driver’s increasing shift in focus from driving towards helping his friend draft the perfect social media post is the point, of just a distraction from whatever the point might be. Nonetheless, the yelling at the screen begins and when it hits you, at the same time as it hits the two characters in the car, that this really is the point of the film... then it hits hard.

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