This movie is terrible
This movie begins with on screen text for exposition and gets worse from there...This is supposed to be a simple movie about a struggling writer who ends up having writers block and can't complete her second novel. But ends up being a frustrating story about a girl who had everything in the first place and gets everything else in the end.
The first thirty minutes of this movie is actually a montage of how Karen Gillan's character becomes apparently Scotlands greatest writer after her first book. It goes on to force a subplot of a love triangle of two gorgeous successful men, to which there only apparent negative points is that they have a difference of opinion of her book title and movie adaption should be done. Finally it ends with the most inappropriate book launches in the history of literature.
The acting is about the only thing that is OK about this movie, but even saying that, it is terribly cast... Karen Gillan is a great actress but they should have cast Martine McCutcheon as the awkward hipster book writer with a bad dress sense (That very dress sense which is the most frustrating thing about this movie as no women would leave the house in what Karen is dressed in in this movie... not even ironically), As she could have pulled off the awkward British comedy that they are going for...
This movie is like a college graduates rejected short film that was dragged out into a feature movie... It really displays no good storytelling or film making skill. The main character is apparently a failing unsigned novelist at the beginning of the movie, who somehow can afford, not only a big apartment on her own with no job but also a house in the country side and a full wardrobe... Her antagonist is a Beautiful young Frenchman who owns his own small publishing firm that is going bankrupt even though he has the award winning best new writer on his books... There has been no thought given to the characters background, story or casting...
It's a shame that this was made... Someone was lucky enough to get these skilled actors and crew and wasted it on this story... how it got funded is beyond me.
Do yourself a favour... give this one a miss
score 1/10
jc_crashzone 25 July 2014
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3056234/34848
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