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A huge contributing factor to the initial intrigue is that Feng Yu drops us at a point already way into the timeline of the story with little explanation, piquing our curiosity from the start.

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As I said, this abrupt tonal shift might leave you a little underwhelmed, simply due to the fact that director Han Feng Yu ekes out such an effective mystery from the beginning of the movie that a part of you does want to see it play out in the violent and cathartic fashion that is typical of the kind of narrative it seems to be suggesting it is. During the first ten minutes of runtime, it presents itself as quite an alluring revenge thriller, but quite quickly simmers down and reveals its intentions are far from what you might have been led to believe, as the second half of the movie takes a left turn into a lightly introspective, bittersweet drama, to fascinating effect. “Morning Elsewhere” is a short that at first might leave you a little disappointed. After naively trying to sabotage the operation, she ends up in the hands of a dangerous mob boss, realising that her forced heroism and desire for vengeance has perhaps led her out of her depth… The reason she has volunteered herself to be a drug mule is unclear, but what soon becomes obvious is that she has a personal vendetta against those who are running the show.

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Looking for something more? You’ll have to find that “Elsewhere.The film opens with a stone-faced young woman, Fei, getting ready to board a bus that will take her, a group of similarly aged girls, and several suitcases seemingly full of drugs over the border. It teeters unsatisfyingly between forlorn and wistful. The odd spark and eccentric touch - a character raising a family in a travel trailer - is lost in a lot of recycled bits and obvious gags, pitfalls or obstacles. He, like Weaver, is here for a big speech which he manages with skill.Ĭosta Rican writer-director Hernan Jimenez (“About Us”) makes a movie that closely mirrors Bruno’s disheartened mopiness. We’re treated to one tender moment - not with Young’s official leading lady - and a few half-hearted jokes, many of them manhandled by Jeong. Weaver? She’s here for a couple of cutesy bits and one killer, withering put-down. Posey is that rare actress who can’t miss, Bridges has the soft-hearted Dad thing down. Young gives a deft, unmoored and sad performance, and truthfully he’s better than the movie surrounding him. It’ll never work out, especially if his stoner-pal ( Ken Jeong) can line him up with “my cousin the lawyer” ( Ray Abruzzo) to sue and try and get his house back. “I’ve never met some an OPINIONATED contractor!”

The house is a veritable shrine to his loss, even the bad plumbing. Which is how he becomes her contractor for “renovations” which Bruno is loathe to carry out. And he can’t bring himself to tell new owner Marie ( Parker Posey) that he built it and lost the woman he loved while living there, and then had it taken from him. His therapeutic visits back to the woodsy, seaside Pacific Northwest house he built for lydia, to break in and clean and do “maintenance,” end when it sells. Dad is understanding, but Mom ( Jacki Weaver) isn’t. He’s “morose,” about to lose his job, and then he’s evicted. His Dad’s ( Beau Bridges) toast? Maybe.īruno’s an architect and a builder who’s been in a near stupor since losing Lydia. That opening scene surprise birthday party for Bruno, played by Aden Young of TV’s “Reckoning?” Not nearly as tactless/heartless as it might seem.

We figure out a few minutes in that Lydia ( Kathleen Munroe) died a couple of years ago. And then she died, and her rich you-know-what-heel dad takes the land back, and the house that stands on it. Bruno built it, lived in it with his wife. “Perfect analogy” because it’s about a house. That would be the perfect analogy, except “Elsewhere” doesn’t irritate you - exasperate yes - and doesn’t leave you feeling used and broke when all is said and done. The melancholy romance “Elsewhere” is like that endless home improvement project that starts with so much promise, but that your contractor never quite gets up the gumption to finish.