Review of Losing Control (2012) by Mims — 23 Mar 2012

I reviewed Losing Control for Technology Review, here: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27670/?p1=blogs.

Here's an exerpt: If you've ever done time in a lab, or if your geeky tendencies extend to over-analyzing your love life,I reviewed Losing Control for Technology Review, here: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27670/?p1=blogs.

Here's an exerpt:

If you've ever done time in a lab, or if your geeky tendencies extend to over-analyzing your love life, you're probably going to like the new indy flim Losing Control, a romantic comedy that revolves around an obsessive-compulsive molecular biologist played by Miranda Kent.

It's hardly surprising that Losing Control was written and directed by someone who earned a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard Medical School. (That Valerie Weiss did so while simultaneously serving as filmmaker-in-residence at the university's Dudley Film Program is all kinds of surprising.).

This being a romantic comedy, the plot of Losing Control is paper-thin, and there were times when the film felt a little less than Hollywood perfect. But for me, that only added to its charm. Maybe it was the little touches that drew me in. In one scene, the protagonist is forced to move her experiments to her kitchen, where she uses a salad spinner as a centrifuge. Yes, I know that a salad spinner couldn't possibly have any utility as a centrifuge -- the point is that the film devotes any screen time to centrifugation at all.