Submitted by AJ Garcia on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 10:28AM
Title: One Day Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Mison Director: Lone Scherfig Studio: Universal Studios Runtime: 107 Minutes Release Date: November 29, 2011 Format: BLU-RAY Discs: 1 MPAA Rating: Rating: ( )Grade: B- Factoid: Romola Garai filmed her scenes during the breaks she had in the shooting of The Crimson Petal and the White. ~IMDB In ‘09 I had the privilege and the pleasure of sitting down in a little art house theater in Charlotte to watch a screening of Lone Scherfig’s, later Oscar nominated, period drama An Education. I walked away completely engulfed in the film, even after I made it home on my twenty minute drive. To this day it remains one of my favorites for its brutal honesty and wonderful character delivery by its cast as a whole. That being said, when I found a copy of Scherfig’s follow up to An Education, One Day, I was ecstatic. I had missed it in theaters and threw it on with, probably too much, excitement. One Day follows Emma and Dex, as played by Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) and Jim Sturgess (Fifty Dead Men Walking), two souls who find one another and meet just about once a year but keep their friendship alive via telephone. As I watched, and waited for the romantic angle to truly hit me with something profound, I only found myself becoming more and more annoyed with the characters in the film. Kind of a tough break when a film needs you to understand its characters and you only understand that you dislike them, immensely. So, poor me, hopeless romantic who thrives on romantic films, is left to the films devices, which become increasingly dramatic and boring. Please, Hathaway, maintain your British accent or don’t. Okay, so Hathaway and Sturgess do a pretty good job in the film, They flesh out what little there is of their characters and help the film move along at its snail pace. I’ll give them that. It could have been worse. It could have been another Channing Tatum/Nicholas Sparks film. In any case there was a point when I found myself on my feet pacing, trying anything to not keep from being annoyed by the film. It’s just not that great. QUALITY: Audio quality is great, which makes sense as your meant to hang on the characters every word. Dialogue is everything in a dramatic piece like this. Immersion is kept at a minimum but heavily crowded places offer up a good ambient sound that will place you with the characters. BONUS FEATURES: I was pretty disappointed with the bonus features. The deleted scenes don’t offer much to give you a better handle on the overall story, the other bonus run very short. They were all in HD though, if that counts. Pictures: |
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