Season To Taste

Rating: 7/10 (17 October 2009)

There's a lot to like in this slightly offbeat bittersweet romantic comedy but ironically it's these very aspects that will probably prevent it from standing up to further viewings. More and more in the last few years we're getting stuff like this - Juno, The Station Agent, Garden State, Sideways, Junebug, lovely films that give you a lift when you see them once but seldom hold up to further viewings. If these indie filmmakers could isolate the ingredient(s) that make us happy to watch say, Double Indemnity, Midnight, Easy Living, Shane, etc over and over they'd never look back. It also helps that the leads - or indeed the majority of the supporting players - are not over familiar, this adds to the freshness as does the non-linear presentation. In retrospect not a lot happens, a guy thinks he's found his dream girl and soul mate combined, she likes him a lot but is not so sure he's her Mr. Right. They split, he's devastated, she marries someone else. Finally he meets someone else who just might be the one. Banal, maybe, but as I keep saying, it's the way you tell 'em.