Overview
- The film, which opened in theaters Friday, premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and was acquired for North America by Row K Entertainment after a yearlong gap before release.
- Critics have given the film mixed to negative reviews that consistently praise the filmmaking and acting while finding the story and character work underwritten.
- Reviewers singled out Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean’s direction, Sharone Meir’s cinematography, and Sam Levy’s editing as clear strengths that shape the film’s memory-driven, non-linear form.
- The narrative follows a five-year, on-again/off-again romance told through jumpy, memory-like scenes and frequent early-2000s pop-culture markers, with Harper shown pursuing a culinary career in New Orleans and Charlie facing aimlessness and drinking problems.
- Stars Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones have been publicly defending the film’s deliberately ambiguous, quietly hopeful ending as part of a push to reach audiences who may discover it on theaters or video-on-demand platforms.