This one's a beautiful, tender, quiet romantic drama with a moody atmosphere, set in a tight knit Welsh fishing community. It's a touching story about a man waking up sexually in the middle of his life, and how he, his family, and everyone around him deal with it, which makes it emotional and sentimental without ever getting over the top. The slow burn plays out against a landscape that's as bleak as it is gorgeous, where quiet, closed off men are stuck inside rigid ideas of what masculinity should be. Some people might be reminded of "God's Own Country," but I think both films are lovely in their own way. Jack is a middle aged guy who co-owns a mussel farm with his rough around the edges brother Dyfan, and the tension between the two of them is simmering under the surface right from the start. Dyfan's three sons all help out with the work, while Jack's sulky teenage son Tom keeps skipping out. Jack's been with his wife since they were both 16, and...
David is a middle-aged, successful, gay man. For a weekend he invites only three of his best gay pals - Paulo, Roger and Virgil to hang out and chill. They all wonder what it is about, and why not a bigger group but go along with the drill. All these guys are unattached. They all question each other on their relationship status and also questioning in one on one conversations on why they didn't get together sexually or romantically! In between there is a wait for the pizza boy which takes forever, who eventually turns out to be a crush of one of the en who has been searching him forever. There are other random characters thrown in ( I don't know why) like a freeloading neighbor, David's sister needing a babysitter so that the 4 naked gay mean can sit around the teenager and give him tips on how to 'score' with a girl, and Virgil's mother who'd like to see her son connected.
Overall the acting was average but the plot, storyline, music and direction are just bad. Surely it is an indie film, so from that perspective, you do try to give it a benefit of doubt and see if you can find something decent but its hard. I mean what was the point of the film. Oh! every scene cut was with the same cue music of 5 seconds with one man splashing in the pool, just to justify title and it gets so annoying after a while. Also, what kind of friends are you, so-called closest friends, when you really don't know each other so well and question about intimacy and secretly wanna get into their pants. It looked more like 4 acquaintances who have hung out before and were trying to get to know each other better to figure out if the other person is boyfriend material, hookup material or should be just friend-zoned. Virgil's mother and David's sister's characters add absolutely no value to the story.
Cut short this film into a very engaging 20 minute short and the makers will have a better chance of finding more engaging audience. (3.5/10)
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