Forty Years From Yesterday 2013
Starring: Bruce Graham, Suzette Graham, Matt Valdez, Rebekah
Mott, Robert Eddington, Chelsea Word, Elizabeth Overton, Wyatt Eddington,
Plot: Grief quietly reverberates through a family after a
man discovers his wife of forty years has unexpectedly passed away.
My Review and Thoughts:
This is a thick moving drama that lingers inside the
heartstrings and emotional makeup of the viewer. A wonderful acting drama that
says something and gives a personal touch to the emotional side of life and the
reality of losing a loved one.
A movie that anyone who has lost someone can relate to. It’s
a personal movie that sheds light on the drama of life. The movie is something
that I find unique and personal and a film that understands and knows the pains
and drama of life. It’s an examination of emotions. A touching journey of
thoughts, actions and love.
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Your main character Bruce showcases through the wonderful, amazing
acting by Bruce Graham, the love affair he had with his wife. A normal day,
jogging, fast, high spirits and for his age, agile, as he jog’s his normal
morning. As Bruce returns to his home, he finds his love, his wife, dead on the
floor and soon, you the viewer experience the passion and just how much he loved
her, with his ultimate decline. As the agile turns to the reality of being in a
somewhat painful amble state. His heartache is great. You the viewer are then
given flashbacks to Bruce’s relationship and life with his love.
Directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck. Machoian
also wrote the film. Both directed a touching and moving drama that gives and
sends the viewer on a wonderful tale of love and a journey of two lives. They
give you a reality, and an experience of what it’s like to feel, and see, and know, that a loved one is dead. They give you the emotional reality of what we in life
all have felt, on the passing of a loved one. They give you what it means and feels
like. They are able to capture that reality. I think, what is so brilliant about
the film, is its simple tone, simple set up, simple unique approach to the
drama. They go about it in a minimal structure to the drama. They let you see
and feel the emotions through the raw reality taking place. They don’t destroy
it by going overboard like most modern Hollywood films due. They bleed realism
into the film.
I also have to mention that this is Robert Machoian’s and
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s first directed full feature film. Both have worked on many
shorts, documentaries and so on, but this is their debut as full time film
directors. They aced it in my book. If this is any indication of what
is to come, then watch out, for they are clearly at the top of their game.
The extraordinary camera work has to be mentioned. The
feeling and emotions that Bruce feels is given to us in great detail through
the lens of the camera. I love how there is little dialogue in the reality of
Bruce’s understanding of his wife's death, and what he is feeling. His pain and
suffering at his lose is captured in small yet huge actions, through his
performance. Bruce Graham is amazing in this part and gives a passion of the art
form of acting. He shines in the clarity of emotions. He is able to make the
viewer feel his pain, and ultimate love throughout the film. Bruce Graham to me
is what you call, an amazing actor. That term is often overused today, but this
is one instance that it is true and deserves to be mentioned. This is where it
gets shocking, because this is Bruce Graham’s first major feature film. I could
not believe, that this, was his only film. He had acted, in a short film, but this is
his only starring feature, which made my mind spin in shock. Why can’t there be
more Bruce Graham’s in the world of acting.
Raw, real, emotional, passionate, intense, touching, tragic,
affective, visually stunning and at times you feel as if you’re watching realism
before you.
A film that I will remember and embrace many times to come.
It’s a film I love and simply put should be seen, and watched for its passionate
take on something we all can relate to, life, love and death.
DVD INFO:
Digitally Mastered
5.1 Stereo Surround
2.35
Language: English
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