![]() ![]() After a quarrelsome conversation, Charlie learns about her grandmother’s passing and goes to look for the necklace she’s gifted her on her mom’s request. When youre immersed in piecing together the puzzle and figuring out who the main character. In the film’s only dramatically interesting sequence, she takes an emergency video call from her mom ( Barbara Crampton), an overly religious, overbearing woman disapproving of Charlie and unsubtly unaccepting of her sexual orientation. Through sequences that at best add up to a self-indulgent video project, we follow Charlie as she repeatedly FaceTimes with a close friend who seems to be having a great time at a bar, circles her claustrophobic apartment in changing hairdos and outfits, and keeps topping up her booze supply. The filmmakers aren’t exactly restrained about that fact that Charlie doesn’t quite have a sound handle on time. But we know something is off in this picture as soon as she drops a glass of red wine into the bubbly bathtub she’s soaked herself in. Leaving amorous voicemails to her and putting on a silky nightie in preparation for her arrival, Charlie is clearly in love with Simone, an accomplished photographer. In the 83-minute “Alone with You”-a poor man’s version of “She Dies Tomorrow,” with some David Lynch clumsily mixed in-we are (mostly) alone with Charlie (Bennett), a professional make-up artist waiting for her girlfriend Simone ( Emma Myles) to come home to their small, handsomely decorated Brooklyn apartment. It’s a bold move for somebody who has a few acting credits in features like House of the Witchdoctor and King of Knives but most of her acting and all of her writing/directing credits are on shorts. She’s on screen, alone except for a couple of video calls, for the whole film. She co-wrote and co-directed it with Justin Brooks and she, for all intents and purposes is the cast. There could’ve perhaps been a zippy little short here, who knows? But that’s not the movie we get. Alone with You in the Ether Click Here For the Autographed CopyAn exploration of time, love, and mental and emotional well-being from Olivie Blake. Alone with You is very much Emily Bennett’s film. It doesn’t-the film’s chills and scares are nearly non-existent plot, stretched to the seams, unable to sustain a feature's length and camera work, amateurish. It would have been one thing if “Alone with You” at least worked as a genre outing on some level. This is all a long-winded way of saying: the pandemic metaphor movies already feel tired, unless they can come up with something new to say or do something other than hammering on, “it’s lonely and claustrophobic and suffocating in lockdown.” This is bad news for debuting feature writer/directors Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks’ barebones “Alone with You,” a claustrophobia-forward horror-thriller, with a predictable “shot entirely during Covid” written all over it. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. ![]()
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