Nikki (Joi Itapson) has asked her boyfriend Kevin (Douglas Reese) to
meet her at a public café - basically to break up with him and avoid a
scene at the same time. When he arrives awfully late, she's only confirmed
in her resolve. Basically, what she's trying to transmit to him during
their conversation is that it's not her, it's him who's the problem, it's
because she's never on top of his priorities - and even now, he (a
musician) talks more about his upcoming album as about their relationship,
wants to wipe her reservations away with the simple fact that he has
written a song for her - which is simply where it's impossible for the two
of them to come to any kind of agreement ... and eventually, he's just so
overcome by grief he storms out. It's only on her way to the car that
Nikki reveals her real reasons for their break-up - she has found somebody
new, whom she now phones with the good news ... but then she finds a CD
with Kevin's song for her ... Whoever has been dumped at one
time or another during his or her lifetime (and who hasn't) will probably
sympathize with Kevin in this movie - but that's not to say this movie is
just a tearjerker to remind everybody of their own sad pasts,but an
interestingly thought through mini-drama that finds many layers in its
simple story. And the fact that the movie is made up of very few, long
takes (the entire main dialogue for example consists of one single take)
only addis intimacy to the proceedings, gives the whole thing an authentic
atmosphere.
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