AFFF log

Love blossoms everywhere, even in non-linear 11-minute episodes
Links: AFFF / imdb

The what-if concept: what if [(possibly strange) assumption]... follow that through and see where you end up.

I like time-travelling and the playing and tweaking it allows you to do to stories. The plot of this film, guy falls in love with girl in 8 11-minute time-travelling episodes that all occur (her time) within 2 hours of the same night, is something I do absolutely not abhor.

But something was missing. The dialogues seemed a bit too contrived sometimes, particularly the ones between background-characters about love and time. More than once lines and phrases were too constrained and something in the development of the story rubbed against my sense of "rightness": I can't put my finger on it and it didn't ruin the film, but held it back from becoming "good". The means of the filmmakers were limited - it was shot on one day for example - and with that in mind the result is definitely commendable, but what was lacking all had to do with story and dialogue, and those two are not limited by physical means.

I was reminded of "Voices of a distant star", but the strong emotions that film evoked in me, did not occur here.

Rating: 7