To Be Friends

A beautiful movie
One would be very fortunate to experience a love as profound as these friends in this movie. The emotional level is raw and touches the very core of who we are. It is best to watch alone and the music is perfect for this movie.

Beautiful.
A European style art movie, with the slow pace and deep emotional exploration that this entails, but with the extraordinary natural beauty of a California coastline location, and the highest of Hollywood production values.

A very beautiful film. Intimate, for sure not a happy movie, but with tender moments of natural lightness, and lashings of reflections and insights into the human condition.

Oh, and I did compose the soundtrack, by the way, so this will of course make some of you think I'm biased for Team To Be Friends... but actually, I wouldn't have written a review at all if I didn't mean this.

So proud of this little film, and also, the wonderful performances of Joelle Carter and Todd Stashwick under Jim Eckhart's skilled direction.

An important, significant and beautiful film.
`To Be Friends', unlike almost all American television and contemporary film, expects the viewer to participate, to listen, and as one character aptly explains, "To see." This is a movie that barely allows your mind to wander away in distraction; if you are not continually engaged you'll miss important clues that bind the moments of scenic vistas and dialogue together into a story of tension infused with significant meaning. Warning: This is not a film to multitask to, stop and start, or to check e-mail by because the subtleties of the film demand your participation to understand the plot on your own. Unlike almost all national artistic work created today, this film does not do the work for you. Additionally and refreshingly, there are no chase scenes, steamy bedroom exploits, violent outbursts or bleeping interchanges of distraction. `To Be Friends' is an intelligent, sensitive and uncompromising film that explores the oftentimes painful and awkward experience of the...

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