Sweet Story marred by some bad editing

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2003)

I saw this film yesterday and have no complaint about the sweet story, though it doesn't measure up to James Berardinelli's ranking in the top ten of 2003. Great movie for a date. One problem is the camera work. There are some stunning visuals but there are literally dozens of shots in which the boom mike hangs down intrusively above the heads of the characters. One character speaks and the mike drifts to him, another and the mike drifts to her, etc. There must be so many instances of this that if all of them were edited out, no p[icture would be left.
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Charles L. Bland Buffalo New York