Review of The Loneliest Planet (2012) by Gettingtomachupicchu M — 18 Nov 2012

The Loneliest Planet examines a relationship through the characters' nuanced gestures and interactions, and it's obvious that the director tries to challenge the viewers by doing away with conventional dramatic structures and devices.

The film certainly requires lots of patience in order to successfully endure various scenes of these characters simply trekking through the mountains with no words spoken, which inevitably makes the film incredibly dreary and insufferably pretentious.

Everything just feels too intentionally trivialized to get its point across (well, except for that one "sudden" scene). Overall, the issues that the film explores would've worked better on paper, but cinematically, it just ends up being a pretentious bore.