High school friends reunite for Halloween in San Francisco: Mark, who is gay, and Jasper, who is straight and soon to be married, are forced to confront their unspoken sexual history in this haunting, spare look at the subtleties of sexuality, friendship, and loneliness.
In their formative years, Mark used to date Lily, whilst also indulging in some adolescent experimentation with Jasper. Years later, Mark is openly gay, while Jasper is straight and refuses to acknowledge his secret past. Joined by their obnoxious friend Caleb, the group trawl through the night on a hunt for Ecstasy. This quest is interwoven with an abstracted remembrance of a high school camping trip the three friends took, to the Lost Coast, a lush wilderness in northern California, during which Mark and Jasper were involved in a sexual relationship that Mark never got over, and Jasper never acknowledged.
The film was shot almost entirely outdoors in San Francisco and Marin County, California in March of 2006. The first day of shooting was October 31, 2005, when the cast and a three person crew braved the two hundred thousand people crowding San Francisco's Castro district (yes, the one that you have just seen in Milk) for the public celebration of Halloween.
Shot with elegance and precision, Gabriel Fleming’s film didn’t reach my heart nor my soul.
In their formative years, Mark used to date Lily, whilst also indulging in some adolescent experimentation with Jasper. Years later, Mark is openly gay, while Jasper is straight and refuses to acknowledge his secret past. Joined by their obnoxious friend Caleb, the group trawl through the night on a hunt for Ecstasy. This quest is interwoven with an abstracted remembrance of a high school camping trip the three friends took, to the Lost Coast, a lush wilderness in northern California, during which Mark and Jasper were involved in a sexual relationship that Mark never got over, and Jasper never acknowledged.
The film was shot almost entirely outdoors in San Francisco and Marin County, California in March of 2006. The first day of shooting was October 31, 2005, when the cast and a three person crew braved the two hundred thousand people crowding San Francisco's Castro district (yes, the one that you have just seen in Milk) for the public celebration of Halloween.
Shot with elegance and precision, Gabriel Fleming’s film didn’t reach my heart nor my soul.
** (two stars)
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