mirrigold Reviews

Wrapped Up In You (2018)

Lovely interpretation of Ella and Brooke's book

[8/10 · 2 June 2021]

This is a delightful interpretation of the book written by Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine.

It's sweet, full of good cheer and just makes you feel happy when witnessing the obvious love between the two men.

A series of flashbacks gives insight into the critical moments in their past and both actors are thoroughly convincing in their roles.

Sign (2016)

Simple, beautiful and effective

[10/10 · 3 December 2016]

It's difficult to know where to start or what to say about SIGN. At its heart, this is a film about relationships, about falling in love, about finding your place in the world.

But it's also so much more, it's about communication, it's about frustration, it's about pain and it's about redemption and hope. Mostly, it's about love.

That the film has no spoken dialogue until the very end would, you'd think, make it difficult to understand, but it doesn't. Not knowing American Sign Language also doesn't make it hard to understand. Everything you need to know can be seen on the screen as Aaron and Ben meet, fall in love, have problems, split up, try to move on but, eventually, come back to each other.

It is, simply, beautiful.

And, in the spirit of full disclosure, I was a backer of the film, not a huge amount of money, but I am so glad I did something to help this film get distributed.

Being deaf should not exclude someone from life and this film is simply a love story.