Boyfriend (Kole Riggs) and girlfriend (Tiffany Jordan) have just come
home from a family function where he met her folks for the first time ...
and well, it went - well, as these things go, a little weird, as
somethings just clashed. Nothing big of course, just as these things go
... But now they're back at their place, and they get into arguments,
maybe for the first time ever, and about everything, from his guitar
playing (which is bad) to his refusing to her food, for him not being able
to go with her anywhere ... and then he wants sex when she's super fed up
because she starts to feel their relationship's not leading anywhere but
to sex and more sex - and she might be right, as soon after he phones a
fuckbuddy of his (without her knowledge) and tries to get away from her
under false pretense. And even when a neighbour (Douglas Reese) stops by
complaining about the noise in the apartment but staying for a jam session
on his guitar, it turns out he has more in common with the neighbour than
with her ... Now Blue Guitar is not a "big"
film in any sense of the word, it's mostly two people arguing, and mostly
in an apartment (and for a few minutes in a campy supermarked), and all
comes to an ambiguous ending - but at the same time, the film says a lot
about certain kinds of relationships, and the the expectations partners
put in them respectively (e.g. mostly sex as opposed to sharing everything)
- and that certain relationships just aren't to be ... and all that is
brought to life by Douglas Reese's usual very subtle directorial approach
and deliberately slow approach to things at hand, as well as a really
strong lead duo, who really have the right chemistry for this. Totally
worth a look!
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