This film cannot decide whether to embrace the celeb-London-nightlife excesses our hero writer finds himself in, or lecture us on how shallow it all is
For all its literary pretensions, this tale of a young novelist adrift in London’s celebrity-infested nightlife is a soap bubble of hot air. Ryan Stevenson (Chris Mason) is a Liverpudlian scribe who has relocated to London in order to pen the follow up to his gritty first novel. His loathsome agent is lobbying for something “aspirational not miserable”, with an emphasis on cars, girls and clubbing. Director Marquand tries to have his cake and eat it, with lots of slow-motion shots of sexily gyrating beautiful people, combined with Ryan’s cutting voiceover reminding us how shallow it all is. Any film which uses the camera like a giant tongue with which to drool over the cast has no right to a position of moral superiority.
For all its literary pretensions, this tale of a young novelist adrift in London’s celebrity-infested nightlife is a soap bubble of hot air. Ryan Stevenson (Chris Mason) is a Liverpudlian scribe who has relocated to London in order to pen the follow up to his gritty first novel. His loathsome agent is lobbying for something “aspirational not miserable”, with an emphasis on cars, girls and clubbing. Director Marquand tries to have his cake and eat it, with lots of slow-motion shots of sexily gyrating beautiful people, combined with Ryan’s cutting voiceover reminding us how shallow it all is. Any film which uses the camera like a giant tongue with which to drool over the cast has no right to a position of moral superiority.
- 10/22/2015
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Bringing first-time screenwriter Stephen Morris’ tale to the big screen, James Marquand’s Between Two Worlds follows struggling writer Ryan, recently dumped and under copious amounts of pressure from his tight suited, slave driving agent to produce his next masterpiece. Though initially there’s much promise in the film’s set-up, eventually it all tumbles downhill miserably in a sea
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- 10/22/2015
- by Gloria Daniels-Moss
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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