YOU ARE ALONE-B UFF - THE DAY AFTER
The last film I watched with an audience at ths year's BUFF was an extraordinary fim by Connecticut filmmaker Gorman Bechard, YOU ARE ALONE. The film is basically a conversation between a Yae undergrad escort service girl and her client, who happends to be the divorced next door neighbor who had happened upon her at his nephew's bachelor party. As trite as this might sound, it is not at all, for (since the film is not likely to get major theatreical distribution, I can tell you the story), his purpose in hiring her was more sinister than just having sex.
In the course of the film, the two talk a lot,and the woman, brialliantly performed by Jessica Bohl, the two uncover the layers of oneness. He - who lost his wife; she, more existential, has sex to escape the loneliness from incomplete relationships, with family, with lovers. The film never quite hits the existential possibilities f the title, but it does hit a chord.
And, fr me, I watched it at a time when thefestival I thought I had developed, didn't draw the people in the Boston area who would seek out films trat are among the best that BUDFF has ever presented, and bacause the co-programmers, who have done an excellent job, had their own set of ideas and of ownership f BUFF.
The ultimately sad and lonely people in YOU ARE ALONE never feel sorry for themselves, and, as I realize that, at my age, there is a disconnect between myself and the audience I would like to have, as well as the unexpected disconnect between myself and those who worked so hard to mark BUFF 7 work. The man in the film wanted to be taken out of his misery; the woman who did it might move on.
In the course of the film, the two talk a lot,and the woman, brialliantly performed by Jessica Bohl, the two uncover the layers of oneness. He - who lost his wife; she, more existential, has sex to escape the loneliness from incomplete relationships, with family, with lovers. The film never quite hits the existential possibilities f the title, but it does hit a chord.
And, fr me, I watched it at a time when thefestival I thought I had developed, didn't draw the people in the Boston area who would seek out films trat are among the best that BUDFF has ever presented, and bacause the co-programmers, who have done an excellent job, had their own set of ideas and of ownership f BUFF.
The ultimately sad and lonely people in YOU ARE ALONE never feel sorry for themselves, and, as I realize that, at my age, there is a disconnect between myself and the audience I would like to have, as well as the unexpected disconnect between myself and those who worked so hard to mark BUFF 7 work. The man in the film wanted to be taken out of his misery; the woman who did it might move on.
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