After unhitching her camper at a lakeside in the mountains, Faye finds her rhythm cooking meals, retrieving crawfish from a trap, and scanning her old box radio for a station. She looks expectantly at the approach of a car or the mailman, explaining to neighboring campers that she’s waiting for a childhood sweetheart she hasn’t seen in decades. When he does arrive, Lito and Faye, both widowed, spend an evening reminiscing about their lives, losses, and loneliness. A whimsical romance, Max Walker-Silverman’s captivating debut feature shows an American West full of quietude, compassion, and introspection. It’s both naturalistic and vaguely surreal, blurring our sense of time and beauty, loss and vivacity, the grandiose natural world and intimate humanism. Career performances from Dale Dickey and Wes Studi bring an inescapable presence to people we don’t often see portrayed on film. They are gentle outliers possessed of resilience and existential spirit, seeking to process something elusive: a feeling of love for what’s no longer there. Like Faye turning her radio dial, they listen hopefully for the faint trace of a song.
如同白水煮小龙虾，孤独是永恒的。我大半夜也要翻出初恋的照片来看看。
苍凉的风景与柔软的心也很配。
还没分别，已在心里写信——在隐喻着巨大烈度的浪漫《小情歌》中，如来未来的「爱情」生活让自觉脱离被「统治技术」体系化、网络化、陷阱化、形而上学化，生活方式化，繁复而精致的现代社会秩序的小资产阶级一度落入左右摇摆的困局：一方面沉浸在「岁月静好」叙事中，像公主那样期待她的白马王子快点到来，以此证明她笃信的童话故事不是空想；另一方面某种神秘又强大的「邪恶」势力寄希望于她：要么从这片神圣的土地上搬走，要么入...
摄影美到窒息，山与湖，星空与牧羊人，都成为一体。非常简单的故事，但余韵悠长，每一个小小的情节都是动人的，整部电影就像一首古老隽永的love song，响起来，哼起来的时候，很多往事就慢慢浮现了。
规避式煽情-08/20/22 at AMC Palisades 21
