(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>   <p>It's been three weeks since Jane Grey (Natasha Bain) has been left by her lover, Duncan (Charles Mayer), and the separation should not at all have come as a surprise, since he's married with child, and their get-togethers always were of a hush hush nature - and yet, the break-up has left Jane in shatters, so much so that for three weeks she had slept in her car outside of his house just to get a glimpse of him and the like. And she has texted him, time and again, pretty much pressuring him into meeting her again, if nothing else just to give her closure. And this film shows the lead-up to that meeting, as Jane, a struggling actress, wastes away her day in the usual manner, including going to an audition she knows too soon she's not right for, taking a singing class, going to the National Gallery and the like, all the while musing about her place in the world, as a black woman in London, and an actress at that, coming from a white foster family that always let her feel her other-ness, and finally ending up in a relationship as the woman on the side until ultimately being laid off. Of course, there's still hope Duncan will take her back, but is that a good thing? And what if not?<p> <p>A rather unique film that's told almost entirely in its lead characters long off-screen monologues while showing her going through trivial and seemingly random routines that only gradually gain actual meaning the deeper we get into Jane's mind. And as random as some of the scenes seem, they're all rather beautifully filmed, but without letting the aesthetics smother the film's story. And both in voice and in body - which are pretty much separated in this movie - Natasha Bain gives a very impressive performance. And all of this combines makes up for an unusual but highly worthwhile cinematic experience. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2022"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>