Carlos Aguilar When lay minister Thomas Munro (Guy Pearce) first reaches the shores of New Zealand in 1830, he does so on a white horse. A religious British man riding into a far-off land on his milky stallion is the picture of a white savior if there ever was one.
‘Brightwood’ Review: A Divorcing Couple Falls to Pieces Amid Tedious Time Loop Shenanigans
21.08.2023 - 22:41 / variety.com
J. Kim Murphy Break-ups are often protracted sagas, littered with fading sympathy, belated realizations and a lot of dead air — all irritations that define Dane Elcar’s low-budget “Brightwood,” a sci-fi tall tale that follows a couple on the downslope of a marriage that becomes mysteriously ensnared in a time loop while jogging in the woods. Inelegantly extending the premise of his 2018 short “The Pond” to feature length, the writer-director quickly expends all interesting angles on his barebones premise.
Though his feature debut is billed as a genre hire-wire act, Elcar simply isn’t enough of an acrobat to put on a show. Jen (Dana Berger) is out for a jog, pumping herself up to the beat of a podcast about how to prepare for divorce. Dan (Max Woertendyke) is panting to keep up, gasping between apologies for being a messy drunk at the previous evening’s party, soiling what was supposed to be a celebration of his wife’s promotion.
The blood-from-a-stone assignment Elcar creates for himself is finding an interesting dynamic between two people who no longer have any use for one another; there’s nothing left for Jen and Dan to exchange but antagonistic bickering. After a heated argument, the pair find themselves unable to leave the filthy pond that they’ve spent the morning around. Walking off the pathway only leads them back to the shoreline and the trail appears to have transformed into an unbroken loop.
Their bad moods quickly turn into panic. The film sprinkles in a couple desperate signifiers — a growing pile of entangled earbuds, silent cloaked figures who don’t answer to greetings — to rack up some intrigue. “Brightwood” fails to find its footing because it appears to have little interest in the shared history between
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