Charlie Casanova (EIFF)
I really don’t want to be mean, but this film was the biggest waste of my time. It’s sad because I think everyone thought they were involved in a gritty, edgy and dark (those exact buzzwords have probably been used by other people) film but it was far from that. Apart from being all to aware of its style (and even then it’s nothing special although it is the best thing about the film) the substance was thrown completely out of the window. A story that sounds like it couldn’t be boring is boring and the people are unlikable, sure I guess that was the point but even crude and malicious characters are supposed to have some sort of charisma about them to make you invested, after all the film does have the word ‘casanova’ in the title but there is absolutely no charm, no nothing. I really didn’t understand it, and I guess neither did the eleven people who walked out of it before it finished.