Friday 19 October 2012

One Hundred Mornings (Conor Horgan, 2009)

Society has broken down, and two young couples try to eke out the semblance of a normal life with their dwindling supplies in a cabin in the Irish countryside. Certain aspects of the plot write themselves, of course, with friction setting in between the menage-a-quatre and moments of cosy domesticity growing fewer and further between as the situation gets more desperate. So it's nice that the script uses the dystopian survival set-up not as an end in itself, but rather as a device to depict relationship arcs accelerated as though in time-lapse. The cast of unknowns cope well within its narrow bounds too, not acting through the walls.
Probably thinking the setting was the key, it was to be rather transparently transposed to Wales a few years later by Amit Gupta for his alt-history WWII pic Resistance. The point was missed.

6/10

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