#indie fail

http://moviessuite92online.blogspot.com/2014/02/20140217-drama-review-nuit-1.html

One line summary: Two boring slackers discuss their uninteresting one night stand.

Two stars of five.

Cinematography: 7/10 Fairly good for the difficult low light conditions often chosen by the director.  When there was sufficient light, the visuals were rather good.

Sound: 5/10 OK, though nothing great.

Acting: 4/10 Meh.  Any high school drama student could have swapped in for either of the principals.

Screenplay: 4/10 Plain, boring, non-engaging.  The script is not clever enough to make one care about the characters, who are about as engaging as lichen on rocks.  Write an essay, get it published, get it out of your system, but don't make a film about it, especially one this bad.

http://moviessuite92online.blogspot.com/2014/01/20140124-drama-review-apart.html

Conclusions

Folie à deux (Induced delusional disorder (F.24) ICD-10) is in the literature; wikipedia has a nice article about it.  However, this is the worst vanity indie film I've seen in months.

One line summary:  Two defective children are bad for each other and those around them.

One star of five.

Scores

Cinematography: 10/10 Fine work.  Amazingly good considering the foulness of the screenplay and most of the acting.

Sound: 10/10 No problems.

Acting: 3/10  The veteran actor Bruce McGill delivered as usual.  The rest of the cast was terrible.  The two principals were the worst.  The three points are for Mr. McGill.

Screenplay: 0/10 This was a rat's nest of nonsense of endless re-interpretations.  The script is as bad as the acting of the two principals.  There is about five minutes of content stretched over 85 minutes.  Rotten Tomatoes got it right at 11%.