Product: In Passing
Rating: 2.0
Feels like a Grade-C film school project
This production is not only an example of bad indie filmmaking, but Fitzgerald appears to have taken her film class lectures on the use of slow motion and stop motion a little too close to heart. With this mash, the library of lesbian cinema gets another addition to the bulging shelf of plots about unfaithful, betraying women -- a theme that seems to have become almost mandatory for the genre. And in what guide to creating low-budget lesbian theme films is the chapter that suggests it's a good idea to also add a soundtrack of embarrasingly second-rate songs? The whole production feels as if it was slapped together from disjointed takes and in some scenes Veronica Mittenzwei looks tired and aged. Kate Clinton's brief appearance isn't simply wasted, it's also monotonous. Sit through this if you must (at the least you'll learn what not to do if you should feel an urge to make your own video quickie).