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39/29
But Julie chooses to remain silent
Scenario
Julie is the star of an elite tennis academy. When her coach is investigated and suddenly suspended, all the players at the club are encouraged to speak out. Belgium’s official submission for Best International Feature Film; in the category at the 2025 97th Academy Awards. It’s not a good film. It’s a nice enough story, though. The script could use some tweaking, though. It feels like they had a few scenes in mind and then worked on them. There are a few good scenes (that confrontation in the café comes to mind), but it’s not enough to keep this thing going.
Why is she silent?
All the actors are at the top of their game. Especially the young tennis pro who plays Julie. She really does the best she can with the material she’s given. But even that’s not enough. There are just too many unanswered questions: What really happened between Julie and Jeremy? One moment she has issues with her new coach and the next she is the only one being coached by him (I mean what the F.. anyway?) So story-wise it’s just a big FAIL! But here’s my biggest problem with this movie.
There’s no lighting
This director just doesn’t know how to make a movie!! The framing is simple and wrong. There were shadows everywhere. In one scene you can only make out two silhouettes talking to each other. He never takes a scene between different subjects. It looked like they only had one camera. Now maybe (and I’m just speculating here) he thinks this gives his movie peace and quiet. But it annoyed the hell out of me.
Sometimes it was just unnoticeable
And if you decide not to have cuts in your movie, make sure to stay on the mainframe and let us (the audience) watch and look where we want/need. No, this director decides for himself, we don’t need that information. So, in many scenes we see people talking to other people whose heads are (half) cut off or you can just see half of their faces. What do they teach in film school today??!! Also, was this movie shot on an iPhone??!! When I saw that Nicolas Karakatsanis is a leader in this field, my mouth dropped! He really made this phone call. For me, it all comes down to one of 2 things: either this director doesn’t know the basics of filmmaking, or he doesn’t care.
And that’s fine
Maybe he just wants to tell his stories. But film is a visual medium. And here it was just not done right. And I, as a paying customer, want more.
