Sometimes you just connect with a film. I felt that way with David Fardmar’s ‘Are We Lost Forever.’ The film is definitely flawed, but for me it does one thing very well: it captures the emotion you feel after a breakup. In the film, a couple decide to part ways, and it shows how each of them deals with the separation. At first there is animosity, even denial, until sadness and depression sets in. Bjorn Elgerd plays Adrian, and he is great here, giving the character depth as he goes from one emotion to another – he is singing and dancing along to a pop song one moment, and crying into his hairbrush the next. At times the film felt so realistic that it was triggering my PTSD. The film even shows some of the inevitabilities of life – when someone else has moved on, and you are not in that place just yet.
Sure, the film sometimes gets a little tedious, and the characters can be exasperating – making bad decision after bad decision. But then you probably know someone who have gone through the same thing – heck we all have been there. I know this film would not appeal to everyone, but I was emotionally attached to it, and it made the film a satisfying – even thoughtful – watch for me.
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