Hier und Da

More than anything, this medium-length film can be viewed as a very successful piece of publicity for the beautiful town in which it was filmed (Mont-de-Marsan in south-west France) with a story tacked on to give it a wider audience. As to that story, it is terribly slow in developing and the wait is boring. The two male leads, however, are very attractive, but I wish they could have spoken their parts with real conviction. Instead they utter them like schoolboys reciting the lesson they had to learn by heart for homework. As to the music, well I found it difficult to tolerate and often turned the sound down.