Review of The Winter Guest (1997) by Jennifer B — 25 May 2004

I am a huge fan of the off-the-wall British comedies (perfect example: Monty Python) but on the other side of their coin are the low-key styled movies.

I am not the bigest fan of these for they can be the ultimate in tedium. The mundane and the wacky are two British trademarks and this film is definitaly mundane.

It is not without it's hear though. It has an extremely low pace but being based off a play you can imagine how the dialogue is what to watch this for.

This movie revolves around four groups of Brits from the same neighbourhood in one day of revelations and adventure (non-exciting still of course).

Each story has very depressing points and none are very heartwarming, but the emotions are still fair enough and the acting delivers.

This film plays off the cold white of winter so much that my television began buzzing. Everything in this film is bright white. The people, the houses, the snow, and so on.

This film has minor conflicts and an endiong that really isn't an ending. Nothing is concluded whatsoever. There is no period. This is clearly an artistic move for the audiences imagination and the loose mystique of winter.

So, it's something to watch if you're a fan of monologues and soliloquays but not for intensity of any emotion (even the love scene stops part way...and it didn't even get very far).