Review of Find Love (2006) by Private U — 22 Jul 2007

Simply Beautiful.

First Erica Dunton film I have seen and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Written, produced and directed by local Brit Erica Dunton, the film is a short insight into the lives of two strangers who meet in an airport and instantly, if somewaht resistingly fall for each other. Alexia Gilmore is beautiful and her and Christian camargo (recently seen on Studio 60) are thoroughly convincing in their roles. I really like the way that no names are used in the film for the cast, 'him' and 'her' are used as names for the two leads. This enforces the view made by the film, that this could happen to anyone, at anytime, anywhere - the particulars are unimportant.

This feeling of reality been portrayed is enphasised by lighting and "shaky camera" techniques. You feel as if the director is just following around the characters with a little personal camera and filming what happens. In this way it feels more like a documentary than a work of fiction.

Finally the music is very good, and is mostly performed by 'Mum', an icleandic band similar in style to that of royksopp or coco-rosie.

I was very surprised that I enjoyed it, but now after watching it, il look out for Erica Dunton's other work.

4.0/5.0.