Review of The Estate

The Estate (II) (2022)
3/10
Lots of filmmaking 101 errors
14 October 2023
From the first shot there is an editing problem... The fade in is flawed because it's on too short of a clip so it has an abrupt issue when Toni moves head. Then she's facing one way and after car passes she's facing another which crosses the 180 "imaginary line." Then the blonde comes in from the side and it looks so fake - like she literally ran in from a film set off frame. Tonally, the sisters are in two different movies... Anna is over the top while the rest of the cast is playing it dry/real. When the sisters get out of the car and Anna asks about boyfriend.... it was high school stuff - getting out the exposition and it seemed contrived only for that. Basically, this felt like a school film and I could not suspend disbelief. Later when the "pretty cousin" tells her husband to make scones for the mooney, it's revealed that their door was open and the aunt would have been within earshot of their conversation.

I think the script and actors are better than the filmmaking, editing, directing. A lot of this could have been cleaned up with a better editor at least I think... but that's only because the filmmaking is poor and needs a FIXER.
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