4/5
This is a sweet and melancholy film, with a great cast, excellent writing and beautiful cinematography. While the story might seem on the surface rather simplistic the performances and subtlety and restraint of the writing create a delicious emotional ambiguity. But it is the cinematography that is the best part of the film, mainly it's gorgeous use of light and colour which give the film such a great visual style and emotional depth. The performances are subtle and hint at depths and emptiness, displaying a mingling of happiness and desire contrasted with a sort of languid boredom. The cast including Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Luke Kirby have great chemistry on screen. Ultimately this film is about desire and how the fulfilment of desire is the end of the pleasure of desire. Although at times it borders on the melodramatic and sappy, there is enough authenticity and beauty to make this film great.
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