Love Possibly

LOVE POSSIBLY – A BRITISH MOCKUMENTARY WITH SOME REFRESHING AD LIB SCENES. RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING. 83 MINS. MICHAEL BOCCALINI, CHE GRANT

FOR THE LOVE OF COMEDY..PLEASE WATCH THIS!

Hoping that other countries will fall for the funny side of deliberately nerdy characters who jump through personally made hoops to try and achieve their dreams, Love Possibly should do well internationally. Alex, whose character took 2.5 months to morph into, including the lisp,  is played by obviously very talented Steve Hodgetts and his Moldavian girlfriend Anna by equally talented and very beautiful Anna Danshina.  Alex’s mum is trying to cajole him into finding a partner when he is more fond of his pet dog (who dies) and he eventually goes to speed dating and later picks up a potential on a website and heads out for Eastern Europe.  In the back of his mind the “invisible camera crew” – which is why it is a mockumentary, film him virtually drooling over his favourite films which include Notting Hill and Sleepless in Seattle. His love of films is his way of marking his process through life.

On arriving in Moldova, a fascinating meeting with the lady Anna and her son Ivan  and grandmother ensues, and he embarrasses his “girlfriend” by proposing to her in a restaurant having previously remarked in a loud voice that many Jews used to live there and the drinking of wine is the highest in the whole world in Moldova.

Our “hidden technicians” tell us by a series of postcard-like “subtitles” that his fiancées rejection of him is all part of the long process of ensnaring a loved one and sure enough she and her son do arrive in England a few weeks after his return to try and cement the relationship when “only” language barriers and lack of knowing each other as well is in the mix.  A Russian speaking gay lady neighbour  helps to do some translating whilst the fiancée busies herself with an amour whom she met before, whose private party she, Alex and his friends later trash when it is discovered that he dated her and lied to her. His wife calls her a prostitute and Anna trashes the birthday cake made by her for him which took 3 days to prepare.

Trashing, moodiness, gloominess and humourless designs on bigger plans actually achieve in lightening the mood, laughableness and tone of the story yet I feel the audience knows that the happy ever after feel will have a few more twists which indeed it does.  A back to front stag party ensues (don’t ask me, watch the film) and a wedding scene so peaceful and cute is seen fit for our wonderful nerd Alex to trash with the help of his heartless friend dressed as a clown, who may just be jealous?  Still the beautiful bride appears and we are left with an open ended lack of conclusion.  Will the loveable Alex turn up for the wedding or not? There seems no scene in which their relationship has moved on from the platonic stage at any rate.

Comedy with a cat is part of the plot – and unseen mice….Oh go on, find the film through Amazon or call Raindance or google it..just see what you think. My view is you won’t regret watching it and you will laugh a lot.

ENJOY

Penny Nair Price