![]() Still, when June helplessly utters the words “The only thing that matters are essential workers, and I’m not essential,” one can’t help but wish that Holmes’ script would acknowledge that, on the sliding scale of March 2020 suffering, wealthy people sheltering in beautiful chateaus are pretty low.īut more glaring than the awkwardness of Alone Together’s rosy perspective on the pandemic, conveyed seductively by cinematographer Martim Vian in glossy landscape shots that look straight out of a James Ivory film, is the glaring truth that it’s still not time for a COVID-19 movie. Of course, a lot of us had these kinds of realizations during the early stages of the pandemic. This is partially because much of the plot revolves around June’s pandemic-launched identity crisis: She doesn’t know if she wants to be with John anymore, and she feels bad for not having followed her dreams and just written a novel already. And while Alone Together is undeniably a sweet love story, something about it feels a little…wrong. The following 90 minutes are rampant with sexual tension, self-discovery and endless quarantinis. I bet you can’t guess where this is going! But her paradise is quickly interrupted by a handsome stranger, Charlie (Jim Sturgess), who happened to book the Airbnb at the same time as her. So June does what the lucky few did during that time: Grabs a two-and-a-half-hour Lyft from Manhattan to Hudson to camp out in a beautiful cottage that looks like a West Elm showroom. Life is going peachy for her and her loving boyfriend John (Derek Luke)-that is, until a (Comic Sans) title card pops up that reads “March 15, 2020.” We all know what that means. The film follows June (Holmes), a wealthy Upper West Sider food critic. This scene is an apt metaphor for Alone Together as a whole: A pleasant story, but something about it consistently feels a little…off. Katie Holmes’ sophomore directorial effort opens with a nostalgia-soaked montage of Manhattan skylines, backdropped by a soothing, jazzy cover of “Blue Moon.” A clear nod to the iconic opening of Woody Allen’s Manhattan, the first scene of Alone Together takes us on a breezy journey through quiet city streets bathed in golden-hour light, parks where people joyfully congregate and-are my eyes failing me, or is that title card actually written in Comic Sans? ![]()
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