A young woman takes frequent calls from a man who is trying to get a date with her. Meanwhile she is trying to get her bosses to pay her
We are on the outside looking in as the camera is set up on the edge of scenes looking in with the sequences playing out in seeming real time. There is no camera motion just one shot for each scene. Its a technique that is being used more and more in films aimed at the art house and festivals such as the New York Film Fest where pretensions are often more important than watchability.
While not as bad as some films using the point and shoot technique, CROSS MY HEART... suffers in that this film isn't really long enough to engage us. I kept feeling that there is more we should seeing. Shorts can function with limited information, if they remain a moment of time, but the effort to compress a whole day into 18 minutes made it feel as though something was left out and that this maybe a test run for a feature.
I think i's a miss in the present form but I'll be curious if this goes to feature.
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