Then we see her on a date with somebody else. Take, for example, Mary ( Irina Brook), who is Alan's roommate.įirst she moves out. Because it doesn't take the time to really develop its female characters, it's hard for us to care about them. It is so slight, so rambling, so taken with its own charm that it never really involves us. (Of course they are also rougher, more violent and angrier - but that's another genre.) This film deserves a place on that list of warmhearted slices of life, but not a place near the top. The invitations are already printed." "The Girl in the Picture" belongs on a short list of human comedies that all have a generaly similar feel: not only "Gregory's Girl" but also "That Sinking Feeling," " Local Hero," " Comfort and Joy" and even "Letter to Brezhnev." They show us everyday life in the north of Britain, where the people, we gather, are simpler and sweeter and more naive. I don't even believe in God." She: "Don't talk nonsense. Occasionally, he gets to know customers fairly well: Bill and Annie, for example, who are getting married despite what seem like vast disagreements.
Alan works in a photo shop, where he takes wedding and baby portraits, and joins his friend Ken in speculating about the private lives of the people they see in the snapshots they develop.
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