September 10, 2025 • 33 mins
From the first frame to the last, Rye Lane captivates with its bold visual language and authentic emotional core. Set against the vibrant backdrop of South London, we follow Dom and Yaz, two broken-hearted twenty-somethings whose chance meeting evolves into a day-long journey of connection, confrontation, and potential healing.
• Director Rainn Allen Miller creates a vibrant representation of South London that becomes a character in itself
• Unique fisheye and wide-angle cinematography gives the film a playful, childlike quality of discovery
• David Johnson and Vivian Opara deliver superstar performances with undeniable on-screen chemistry
• The film bucks traditional rom-com trends by focusing exclusively on the main characters' journey
• At just 82 minutes, the film delivers a complete and satisfying story that leaves viewers wanting more
• The authentic portrayal of broken people finding connection feels refreshingly real compared to typical Hollywood romances
Letterbox'd Synopsis: Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.
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This is the Wait For it Podcast.
Hey everyone, welcome back tothe Wait For it Podcast.
I am your co-host, phil Barrera, aka Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm your co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and for this
edition of International Feature.
I stumbled across a film thattook my literal breath away and
took my full attention.
So I texted Phil and I said hey, we got to watch this.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's a movie called Rylane yeah, a film that, eric,
you had brought to my attention.
I I believe I had seenrumblings of it because the
poster looks very familiar, butit came out back in 2023.
And it is a film that, when youlook at how it was received and
how people have reviewed itespecially a lot of people that
(01:16):
we very much respect in terms ofcinema, it is a movie that is
held in very, very high regardand very excited to talk to you
guys about it here today.
So, for any of you that arebrand new to the podcast, or if
you're a returning listener,make sure you stick around until
the very end so you can findout where you can find
everything Wait For it podcastrelated.
But, eric, as always, let'sstart off with a synopsis of the
(01:39):
movie 2023 release.
As I mentioned, directed byRainn Allen miller.
Two 20-somethings, both reelingfrom bad breakups, connect over
the course of an eventful dayin south london, helping each
other deal with their nightmareexes and, potentially, restoring
their faith in romance.
So, eric, I want to throw thisto you here first.
Just kick us off, because howlong has this been on your radar
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and why did you miss it back in2023?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So it was really simple when we were talking
about what movie we mightpotentially want to watch, we
were talking about wanting towatch something that was like
somewhat fun, maybe a little bitlighthearted, and that's
because, you know, we just sawGrave of the Fireflies.
So that's what got my directionback onto this movie, which is
(02:27):
a film back in 2023 that caughtmy eye for some unique visuals
and just very clear onscreenchemistry that was happening,
which you love to see in like atrailer for a romantic comedy.
It was also obviously somethingthat was in a different
location Obviously London,british territory, all that type
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of stuff.
I thought that it might be agood contender, but I never
remembered to put it on the listof international feature stuff.
So, like all the movies thatyou might be interested in, it
fell off my radar and again, allthe stars align for what we
were looking for post grave ofthe fireflies.
That led me back to this andI'll be honest, phil, I turned
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on this movie not expecting torecommend it to you because I
was like I just don't know.
Maybe, you know, it's the firsttime.
I think it was either adirectorial or feature film
debut for that director and itimmediately, visually kind of
catches you off guard.
It does some different things,I think very you would say
experimental maybe, but I thinka lot of stuff works.
(03:32):
I couldn't take my eyes off ofthis movie and you may remember
that I messaged you about 30minutes in like, yeah, we're
going to watch this one, yeah,we're going to do this one, this
one, this one is it, and I'mexcited to tell you when that
point was.
But that's a little bit of anidea of how I got back into it
and how my first initialfeelings were.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, this movie.
I think it's going to be a funconversation towards the end as
well, because I want to tell youwhere this would have landed in
terms of other quote unquoteromantic films that also came
out in 2023.
Because I went back and lookedat my 2023 rankings, which I
only watched 30 movies that yearbut surprisingly, there were a
couple of romantic comedies andromantic comedy adjacent movies
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that came out in 2023.
So I would like to talk to youabout where this would have
landed if I had seen it backthen.
So, yeah, if you've maybemissed a couple episodes here,
recently we have adopted a newformat where we each select
three takeaways from the filmand then we use those as
discussion points.
It's been a lot cleaner.
It's been working pretty well.
We've gotten some pretty solidfeedback on it too.
(04:32):
So let's start there, eric, I'llgo ahead and go first when it
comes to positives, or when itcomes to takeaways, and you just
mentioned it there in terms ofkind of like the filmmaking and
alluding to the cinematographyand like the visual style of
this.
It's it's absolutelybreathtaking, honestly, and and
I think that maybe some peoplemight I don't know if they're
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turned off by it, but maybecaught off guard.
It sounds like you were alittle caught off guard.
It wasn't this.
And and I think the longer youlook at this film and the
setting of south London, whichis its own character, maybe even
the best character in the moviejust the setting in general
it's fantastic.
It's got incredible backdrops,especially when it comes to the
characters and the framing thatthey use in this movie.
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A lot of fisheye and wide anglecinematography, like we're
talking about it gives it like avery like childlike, like
playful quality.
You know what I mean.
It's like a kind of a level ofdiscovery throughout the entire
movie and again, it's somethingthat I think everybody needs to
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witness because it's just adelight to look at.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, and you know I think my first call out is
somewhat different, but itreally goes in line with yours.
So I'll get to that.
I'll kind of transitionsmoothly into my first takeaway,
cinematography wise.
The fishbowl aspect, like it,is a little jarring at first.
You know they're also doing.
The movie starts off at an oddangle.
It's the top of toilet seats,like that's.
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That's how the movie starts.
It gets you right away with.
This movie is going to come atyou from different angles.
It's almost like you're spyingon the characters and the day
that they're having, which Ireally like, in addition to the
childlike atmosphere you kind ofalluded to.
I think there's some of that atplay as well.
A lot of the cinematography is,I think, enhanced in the way it
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works and how it works for thebenefit of the film.
Because of my first takeaway,the locations I love, everywhere
this film was shot, listeningto some of the behind the scenes
stuff, the director reallywanted to represent an area she
knew very well.
She linked this movie to theway someone would look at a
Scorsese film or a Spike Leefilm of their versions of New
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York and she said she wanted toprovide a version of this area
in London that she knew verywell, and the movie is almost a
blend of imagination or a takeof a real area and also a lot of
authenticity of a real area,which was just such a nice blend
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of creating a world within anexisting world.
It honestly blew me away.
It was a movie that I didn'twant to look away from the
screen at any point because Iwas afraid of missing some of
the locations, and the fact thatthe cinematography is done in
such a creative way also helpedme want to keep my eyes glued on
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the screen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, it looks so good.
I wonder if you've maybe watchedone of the same YouTube videos
that I did in terms of therepresentation of South London
and that really really coming tolife here.
I believe the TV show that Ilove which is called Trying, I
think that also takes place inSouth London and I don't know,
(07:58):
maybe because we live obviouslywe live in the States and it's
just so every city is coffee andpaste here.
There's so few cities with likeany type of personality or
anything like that and it kindof makes you like long for like
an actual neighborhood.
Like we're so far away fromthat now and obviously for a lot
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of reasons most people keep tothemselves, but it just reminds
me of like when you do findthose hidden gems in
jacksonville, like the RiversideArts Market, you know, like Art
Walk and things like that.
It just wish, like it justmakes you wish you could go to a
place like that.
And again, from what Iunderstood from that video that
I watched, people were veryhappy and the reviews very happy
with how South London wasrepresented in terms of
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community.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I'm going to go on two completely separate
rants of like thought processthat this movie made me feel,
which is not something you wouldnormally get out of me.
Number one I recently, aroundthe time of watching this I
don't know the validity of this,but ran across like a clip
explaining why restaurants, fastfood restaurants are starting
to all look the same yourMcDonald's, your Taco Bell's,
like the way they're designingthe buildings, and it's because
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when they go to sell them, likeyou know, if you think of the
McDonald's with the big ass M,if that store had to be sold,
there's such a limitation toselling that.
So now we're getting these cutand copy paste building designs
to go, for that reason, for likeagain, if it needs to be sold,
or anything like that.
On a complete contrast, we'retalking about the way this movie
looks in the locations.
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It just made me think of AI,like how everything is like
being focused on, like how AI isbeing made.
You know Will Smith over heremaking AI crowds, that type of
shit right, there's no worldwhere something like this is
ever going to be trumped bysomething like that.
Like that.
I don't know why I'm not likepassionate on this topic, but I
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thought about that with thisfilm.
It was just like the way thisthing is authentic about the
locations and the style, like AIcould never.
Ai could never.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's all, Absolutely not, and even though,
like I do think, you arepassionate about it to a degree,
because we have so many artists, friends, and that's where it
comes at the forefront, so ourentire circle is creative.
So I am on board with you there.
Did you weave in your firsttakeaway or did you want to go
to it right now?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, no, my first takeaway was the locations.
Cool, Um.
So you know just kind of topair it with the cinematography.
So not exactly the same take,but it felt weird separating
that because, honestly, theirlocations were so enhanced by
the cinematography it felt likea nice compliment to that take.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Sure, Sure, well, I'll throw it back to you.
What is your second takeaway?
As we uh, as we do, snake draftstyle.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, obviously we're talkingabout the chemistry that I saw
from the trailer being extendedinto the film and a movie that
takes a lot of chances in therom-com genre.
I am not the biggest rom-comguy, phil, which is weird
because I won't shut the fuck upabout Pretty Woman this year,
so it's a really weird place forme to be.
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But this movie is under an hourand a half and it almost is
purposefully dedicated to Domand Yaz.
And when I was thinking of mycritiques for the movie, there
were some other characters Iwould have liked to see a little
bit more like.
The dinner table scenespecifically is when I messaged
you to let you know hey, this isgoing to be the movie and it
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was something about thechemistry of those four actors
and actresses.
I mean the goofy dumb, like newboyfriend, and the
ex-girlfriend and the demeanor.
They're like classic rom-comstuff and normally they would be
more of a presence in adifferent rom-com.
And when I finished watchingthe movie I was like I kind of
wanted that, but then I realizedI was more like catered to that
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.
That's what I'm normallycatered to.
This movie made sure we spentthe time with the most
interesting people and those twopeople are Dom and Yaz, which
obviously David Johnson andVivian Opara, fantastic,
absolute superstars, which is mytakeaway Not only just the
chemistry but the superstarquality of David and Vivian in
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these roles.
We've now seen David Johnson inAlien Romulus and we are going
to see him, I think, in the LongWalk this year, which I'm kind
of interested to see.
For some reason, I haven't seena lot from Vivian Opara since
this and that's kind of a crime,because she is equally a
superstar in her performance forthis movie and their chemistry,
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absolutely undeniable, which isgoing to very greatly impact my
score for the film in apositive way yeah, we are.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I guess this will kind of this will also tie into
my second takeaway.
Is we're so conditioned, likeyou just mentioned, to what a
rom-com is, especially in 2025.
You know there have been somany attempts here recently to
kind of try and revive thatgenre and it is two
traditionally hot people thataren't going to have trouble
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finding love, you know what Imean, like we're looking at you,
glenn powell and sydney sweeneylooking at you, pedro pascal
and chris evans, like evendakota johnson, is very
attractive, even though she hasthe personality of, like this
dead um blue yeti microphone.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Okay, stop, stop calm down you didn't have to go
there I came off of you and Iwas like wait, wait, wait, no,
no, no, no wait wait, no, I saidwhat I said.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Uh, so we're just so conditioned to like what a
rom-com is like.
It has a, it has a witty bestfriend, you know.
It has a, an ex an ex that'sgoing to show up and and
complicate things.
But that doesn't happen hereand, like you said, like in a
very short runtime.
You like, do buy into whatthey've built, because I think a
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lot of people, I know a lot ofpeople will see a lot of
themselves in both of thesecharacters, in both Dom and Yaz,
and some of the good anddefinitely some of the bad.
So the fact that this takescourse over, or like really over
a few hours, I think is great.
Again, I think that's also akind of a big city type of thing
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.
Like you move to the big cityand even though you know South
London, I know, has itsprejudices and all that kind of
nonsense but you move to a bigcity, you meet, you have a meet
cute with somebody while you'rebawling your eyes out in the
bathroom and looking at picturesof mouths at an art gallery.
I'm just also going to put thisout here.
I'm also I'm really glad wedon't have that kind of artistic
friend in our life.
They're like I'm also.
I'm really glad we don't havethat kind of artistic friend in
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our life.
They're like come to my galleryand it's just pictures of
assholes.
I will say that I can't even belike yeah, this is really great
man.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I was really down for the mouths.
I was like, OK, that's kind ofinteresting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And then when we got to the asses, I was like, oh,
all right, I'm the one where youcan kind of see the balls.
I got you, I got you.
Don't worry, ivan, there's acommission coming.
Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no,no, no, no.
So, yeah, I like that.
It bucked traditional rom-comtrends for the most part, which
we'll talk about in just amoment with my third takeaway.
But no, they are fantastic.
It's great to hear.
I didn't know that he was goingto be in the Long Walk and,
yeah, as far as Vivian'sperformance, I mean, even in
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interviews they have a crazychemistry which is just like man
, they really did nail it here.
So it was nice to see again anon-traditional, for the most
part rom-com, in an era wherethey're pumping them out and
they're just not very good.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, no, I think that's definitely it, and it
sounds like you might have moreto say.
I'm kind of curious how manycritiques you might have of this
film, which might be whereyou're going with your third one
.
So why don't you take the thirdtakeaway that you have before
we go into my final take?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, my final takeaway is I wasn't the biggest
fan of the ending, and here'smy thing, and this is where
personality comes into this alot and I just don't think that
Yaz was redeemable at the end,because if someone's going to
say that to you, that means theyhad it in their holster the
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entire time and I'm not going tospoil it, because you guys need
to watch this movie.
It's outstanding.
And I think I didn't buy intothe reclamation at the end as
far as them repairing what wasgoing on, and I just thought
that, like Dom is such a goodperson, I did buy.
I just thought that, like Domis such a good person, I did buy
into the thought that he would,you know, eventually forgive
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and forget.
But, like also, I thought thelesson he should have taken was
man, people, people are kind ofshitty.
I need to like look out formyself, not necessarily be an
asshole, because that's not whohe is.
He's a genuine kind heartedperson.
But I just didn't buy intoreally them coming back around
towards the end and that's why Ithink I didn't.
I know that's why I didn't giveit as a high score, as probably
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you did.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It sounds you're gonna be fucking floored, man.
You're gonna be.
You do not know how much I lovethis movie.
That's why, for the thirdtakeaway, it was going to be
more of a question to you, whichwas how did you feel about the
ending?
Because, while I don't think Ilet it affect my score as much,
I'm curious what other critiquesyou might have in the movie for
what you might be giving it.
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My only critique, honestly,other than the desire to maybe
see a little bit more of thecharacters, which an increased
runtime I think could bedangerous territory for a movie
like this.
But I think we had 10 moreminutes where that could have
just been fun.
You know I was.
I left the movie wanting more,which is a good thing.
But that ending, when they onlyknow each other for like a day
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and they're very intentional tomake this like a day of these
two, and the chemistry and theconnection that they make of
these two, and the chemistry andthe connection that they make
it almost felt like a littledramatic, overdramatic, that
they would have all this time tohave to recover before
reconciling, when, like, theytook more time apart than they
were together, when they werenever really together, so it
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didn't fully land for me, butnot in a way that I think left a
sour taste in my mouth, whichis why I mentioned that.
I think this movie, in additionto going along with your take,
maybe my final take too, is thatthis movie could have used a
little bit more time, in themost positive of ways, in almost
a complimentary way, because Ididn't want this day to end with
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these characters and I reallywish we got to see a little bit
more.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It was very and I I think I would have taken another
10 minutes of the movie, but Ialso am totally okay with the
runtime.
It was like an extended sitcomepisode, like something I would
definitely want to sit down andwatch, like in you know, you
talk about them only reallyknowing each other, for I mean
less than 24 hours.
It reminds me of there's anepisode of how I met your mother
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in like the first season, andyou meet a.
He meets a girl named Victoriaat a wedding and they agree to
never see each other again afterthat wedding.
So of course the next day hespends his entire time tracking
her down and he finds her by theend of the very next episode.
But like this again, it was justvery much grounded in in
reality in terms of people thatare embarrassed about their past
, that they they know that theyhave weaknesses and they know
that they have points of theirlife that they need to to work
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on.
They know they're easily takenadvantage of, they know that
they're broken, they know thatthey've gone through a lot and
take advantage of people and letpeople take advantage of them.
So but yeah, again, justbecause of that of the time that
they had known each other, orthe the lack of time that they
had known each other or the lackof time that they had known
each other.
I just had didn't truly buy inand honestly, like because of
her behavior, it just turned offby that comment by Yaz at the
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end.
So you know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, totally fair, totally fair.
Again, I think we're both inalliances that that ending could
have been a little bit strongerof a landing and that, you know
, just affected you a little bitmore than it did me, because I
was just in complete awe of thisfilm.
So I know we're itching to hearwhat both of our scores were.
So, phil, if we want to maybetransition into that period, I
don't think there's much of aneed for a spoiler section of
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this episode.
I cannot recommend this movieenough.
It might be better.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It of this episode.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I cannot recommend this movie enough.
It might be better Watch it.
It's on Hulu.
Yeah, it's 82 minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It might be better to just make you go instead of
stick around, if you're one ofthose people who like to listen
to other people talk aboutmovies that you've never seen,
so we're going to make you dothat.
But yeah, phil, if we want togo over scores in general
reception and all of that, agreat place to wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, 98% tomato meter score over on Rotten
Tomatoes, 85% popcorn meterscore.
It has a 7.2 over on IMDB andon Letterboxd it's holding
strong at a very high 3.9.
I gave this a three and a halfand I, like you, when that
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restaurant scene happens, it'slike this is outstanding and
again, like you said, sayingthat it falls apart at the end
is too strong because the restof the movie is so good.
But it did drop me from like afour to a three and a half
because I just couldn't quitebuy in to the reclamation, as I
mentioned at the end.
But three and a half andhonestly, if I watch this again
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and and probably notice some ofthe things that I'm sure I
missed on a first watch, itcould go up to a four, but I sat
it at a 3.5 right now.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, that's fair, and I want to take the time to
mention how important it is tocontinue to prove my point about
this one point scale.
So I just want to take anopportunity that my opinion is.
I can probably justify a lot ofopinions within a one point
scale, which is giving you alittle bit of a spoiler what my
score is.
Phil, I had this voice like thefucking Joker in the Dark
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Knight telling me you're goingto break your one rule, like I
swear to God, I was going togive this movie a five.
I was so fucking close thatending.
That ending doesn't do it forme.
On a second watch I mightforgive it.
I might forgive it because Ilove this movie so much.
Not only is it a 4.5, it'sprobably a 4.75.
It's that close.
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It's probably the best movie Ihave seen.
Out of any film that we havecovered, that is not K-pop Demon
Hunters, if I'm beingcompletely honest, and even then
I got to tell you, phil, thisis an all-timer for me.
I am obsessed with this movie.
It's one of my favorite filmsthat we've watched in quite a
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long time and on a rewatch, thisand Banshees are deserving a
rewatch, which is kind of crazy,because I just saw this.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Talk about two opposite.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Completely different movies.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Phil, I don't know what my taste is.
I don't know either.
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I don't know what that was.
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm just going to tell you now, though there's a
very good chance ryan lane atsome point or another enters my
top 25, if it hasn't already,and it could climb.
So I love this movie.
Here's what I say.
I will say filmmaking wise.
It could be a five in terms ofjust pure performances and
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cinematography and music.
We even talk about the music.
Oh, my god, the music playssuch a big part in this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
How is that not one of our takeaways?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The music plays such an amazing part in this.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is like when Botter failed the hip-hop
questions.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
How do we not bring up the music, the music and also
the storytelling, how they toldthe stories of them and the
audience?
God damn it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Start it over.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We're going to stop doing the three.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Hey, everyone welcome back to the Wayfarm Podcast.
We're going to stop doing thethree approach thing.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
The way that they told their stories and shared
their breakup storiesOutstanding too.
So, yeah, in terms of justfilmmaking in general, it's
probably a five, but story-wise,I knocked it off a little bit.
Before we get to where this ison our international feature
list, I do want to tell youwhere it would land in terms of
2023 films that I watched interms of just rom-com.
(24:01):
So they were I'm hesitant toput two movies on here as
rom-coms, but they have.
They have rom-com qualities.
So 2023, past lives came out.
Anyone but you no hard feelingswhich is the jennifer lawrence
movie, which is like it's not arom-com but it's like a
relationship movie and ghosted,and this is easily better than
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all these movies except pastlives, and that's I mean.
Past lives is easily one of myfavorite films that we've
watched on this series and alsoover the last few years, but it
clears slop like anyone but you.
And even though I enjoy anyonebut you, ghosted is terrible.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No hard feelings was fine, but yeah, this easily
would have found its way into mytop 10 in 2023 yeah um based
and not not quite a rom-com, butthe other romance film that I
saw that year was uh, hi, nanaand uh.
This did pass that on myinternational feature list and,
if I'm being honest with you,phil, my top five movies from
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2023 that I saw was out of the25 films I saw that year that
came out in that year was Acrossthe Spider-Verse, godzilla,
minus One, high Nana, elementaland Oppenheimer.
This movie might be one Lookingback.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Phil, you're not going to like what happened to
my international feature listBecause spoiler alert top five.
So I'm just letting you know.
I'm letting you know I neverthought when I pressed play that
I would have such an admirationfor what this film was doing
and what it accomplished.
And just from everything, fromthe, from the.
(25:36):
You know the representation inthe cast this is how you do.
Representation, by the way,from the authenticity, from the
mesmerizing explosion of colorthat is just thrown at you
almost like a dopamine hit everytime the scene changes.
Phil, God damn it.
It's so good, it's so good.
(25:56):
This is a movie I would go outof my way to talk to people
about.
I'm going to be fuckingannoying about this movie.
Move over, pretty woman.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
If only it had Pedro Pascal in it.
You know, maybe it just neededa little bit more Dakota Johnson
.
We really just needed DakotaJohnson.
And who's another like boringNepo?
Who's a boring Nepo?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
male actor's and that's like the.
That's the thing, right?
Imagine replacing vivian uhopara with dakota johnson.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Totally different movie, no matter how good of an
actor david johnson is.
I want my tribe called questrecord back.
That means a whole lot to me.
I really love tribe calledquest, like Like, do you Are you
sure?
Also Colin Firth is in this.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, we didn't bring that up.
I wanted to make sure I broughtthat up.
How did you feel about that?
I thought that was cool.
Did you know what the referencewas?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
He's in Love Actually , which is, I think, a movie
we've considered watching before.
And he's the tortilla chef of arestaurant called Guac Chilly,
so it's a callback to LoveActually.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Is it the same character?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, it's just an uncredited.
It's like a tip of the hat tomovies that Colin Firth has been
in.
The director had said that shesent him a letter because she
thought it'd be a fun nod and hesaid yes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
He said he'll do the cameo, which I think think is
just really cool if you like thecinematographer for this and
also just kind of the setting ofsouth london, I think you would
enjoy trying on apple tv.
It's not a one that I championa whole lot because it is very
niche.
It's about a couple that istrying to adopt children and
it's it's fantastic.
It makes you forget how badRafe's ball is in Jurassic World
(27:41):
, fallen Kingdom, because he'sin that Pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, but as far as where Rylane falls on my
international feature list, itis top five.
It is number five.
It has cleared films like K-Pop, demon Hunters, high Nana, old
Boy and it's just below.
Only four films for me rr,memories of murder, train to
busan and the banshees ofinishirin and which is crazy
(28:08):
because how much you love highnana?
I love high nana.
You know there's that one partof the movie which is
specifically, I think, the musicvideo that it almost it's just
really weird.
If you cut that out of the movieit's like it's very much I
might add Hainana to myrewatches, because if I cry
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again, I'm definitely giving ita five.
K-pop Demon Hunters again Ijust bumped that up to four and
a half.
But yeah, the Banshees ofInushaeran and Rai Lane I don't
know that it'll clear banshees,because I think banshees is
secretly a five and I just keeppushing off my second watch
through of it to give it thefive it deserves.
(28:49):
But fuck man, it's.
It's so close and I again fell.
I cannot believe.
When the credits ran I was likethat's one of the best movies
that I've seen in the pastdecade.
And maybe not the best, but oneof my favorite movies from the
past decade.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, no, don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's the international feature version of
Puss in Boots.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Take a shot.
Take a shot every time youbring up Rylane.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's going to get there, I'm going to be fucking
it.
It was going to be pretty woman, which I also adore.
Pretty woman's right here, likethey're both.
They're both a four and a half.
They're right together.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, so it is lower, so it is number 20, right
behind Tokyo, godfather isperfect days, movies like that,
but in front of like nation oneUltraman, rising children,
children of men, but yeah, Imean.
But listen, you're also talkingabout a lot of these movies, 17
(29:45):
and up being fours for me andagain on a rewatch.
It could easily go up to a four, because I will watch this
again and I will watch it withpeople, because it's just that
enjoyable this movie is a four.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I mean I know you're not giving it it, but it's a
four.
I mean I know you, I know youdon't know any better, so I'm
just gonna speak to them.
I'm gonna speak to future youbecause, like you're, the only
thing you've really critiqued isthe ending, and I think a one
and a half point deduction foran ending, unless it's lala land
doesn't really make a lot ofsense.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You hear what I'm saying well, land has two
traditionally hot people and godlegend's best friend, I don't
know that felt that's whathollywood wants right that felt
a little prejudice there.
Um, it's fine no, hollywood isnot the fact that no one talks
(30:37):
about this movie.
That's not precious.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
White people and jazz not racist.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You know who jazz really needs Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
And Emma Stone, who couldn't possibly be whiter.
If she tried, she literallycouldn't.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
She's Chinese, haven't you seen?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Aloha, she's the sister of Scarlett Johansson.
You're saying, right, right,exactly, we've gone off the
fucking rails here.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I was going to say this is where we need to wrap up
the episode.
We're not going to make it outalive.
Go watch Rylane and if you havewatched it yourself, let us
know what you thought and whatyou thought of the characters
and the cinematography.
And yeah, it's just a movie youneed to experience yourself.
Once again, it's not going totake you a whole lot of time and
I think you'll come away very,very pleased that you had given
(31:23):
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I am your co-host, phil Barrera, aka Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I'm your co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and for this
edition of International Feature.
I stumbled across a film thattook my literal breath away and
took my full attention.
So I texted Phil and I said hey, we got to watch this.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's a movie called Rylane yeah, a film that, eric,
you had brought to my attention.
I I believe I had seenrumblings of it because the
poster looks very familiar, butit came out back in 2023.
And it is a film that, when youlook at how it was received and
how people have reviewed itespecially a lot of people that
(01:16):
we very much respect in terms ofcinema, it is a movie that is
held in very, very high regardand very excited to talk to you
guys about it here today.
So, for any of you that arebrand new to the podcast, or if
you're a returning listener,make sure you stick around until
the very end so you can findout where you can find
everything Wait For it podcastrelated.
But, eric, as always, let'sstart off with a synopsis of the
(01:39):
movie 2023 release.
As I mentioned, directed byRainn Allen miller.
Two 20-somethings, both reelingfrom bad breakups, connect over
the course of an eventful dayin south london, helping each
other deal with their nightmareexes and, potentially, restoring
their faith in romance.
So, eric, I want to throw thisto you here first.
Just kick us off, because howlong has this been on your radar
(02:03):
and why did you miss it back in2023?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So it was really simple when we were talking
about what movie we mightpotentially want to watch, we
were talking about wanting towatch something that was like
somewhat fun, maybe a little bitlighthearted, and that's
because, you know, we just sawGrave of the Fireflies.
So that's what got my directionback onto this movie, which is
(02:27):
a film back in 2023 that caughtmy eye for some unique visuals
and just very clear onscreenchemistry that was happening,
which you love to see in like atrailer for a romantic comedy.
It was also obviously somethingthat was in a different
location Obviously London,british territory, all that type
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of stuff.
I thought that it might be agood contender, but I never
remembered to put it on the listof international feature stuff.
So, like all the movies thatyou might be interested in, it
fell off my radar and again, allthe stars align for what we
were looking for post grave ofthe fireflies.
That led me back to this andI'll be honest, phil, I turned
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on this movie not expecting torecommend it to you because I
was like I just don't know.
Maybe, you know, it's the firsttime.
I think it was either adirectorial or feature film
debut for that director and itimmediately, visually kind of
catches you off guard.
It does some different things,I think very you would say
experimental maybe, but I thinka lot of stuff works.
(03:32):
I couldn't take my eyes off ofthis movie and you may remember
that I messaged you about 30minutes in like, yeah, we're
going to watch this one, yeah,we're going to do this one, this
one, this one is it, and I'mexcited to tell you when that
point was.
But that's a little bit of anidea of how I got back into it
and how my first initialfeelings were.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, this movie.
I think it's going to be a funconversation towards the end as
well, because I want to tell youwhere this would have landed in
terms of other quote unquoteromantic films that also came
out in 2023.
Because I went back and lookedat my 2023 rankings, which I
only watched 30 movies that yearbut surprisingly, there were a
couple of romantic comedies andromantic comedy adjacent movies
(04:11):
that came out in 2023.
So I would like to talk to youabout where this would have
landed if I had seen it backthen.
So, yeah, if you've maybemissed a couple episodes here,
recently we have adopted a newformat where we each select
three takeaways from the filmand then we use those as
discussion points.
It's been a lot cleaner.
It's been working pretty well.
We've gotten some pretty solidfeedback on it too.
(04:32):
So let's start there, eric, I'llgo ahead and go first when it
comes to positives, or when itcomes to takeaways, and you just
mentioned it there in terms ofkind of like the filmmaking and
alluding to the cinematographyand like the visual style of
this.
It's it's absolutelybreathtaking, honestly, and and
I think that maybe some peoplemight I don't know if they're
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turned off by it, but maybecaught off guard.
It sounds like you were alittle caught off guard.
It wasn't this.
And and I think the longer youlook at this film and the
setting of south London, whichis its own character, maybe even
the best character in the moviejust the setting in general
it's fantastic.
It's got incredible backdrops,especially when it comes to the
characters and the framing thatthey use in this movie.
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A lot of fisheye and wide anglecinematography, like we're
talking about it gives it like avery like childlike, like
playful quality.
You know what I mean.
It's like a kind of a level ofdiscovery throughout the entire
movie and again, it's somethingthat I think everybody needs to
(05:37):
witness because it's just adelight to look at.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, and you know I think my first call out is
somewhat different, but itreally goes in line with yours.
So I'll get to that.
I'll kind of transitionsmoothly into my first takeaway,
cinematography wise.
The fishbowl aspect, like it,is a little jarring at first.
You know they're also doing.
The movie starts off at an oddangle.
It's the top of toilet seats,like that's.
(06:03):
That's how the movie starts.
It gets you right away with.
This movie is going to come atyou from different angles.
It's almost like you're spyingon the characters and the day
that they're having, which Ireally like, in addition to the
childlike atmosphere you kind ofalluded to.
I think there's some of that atplay as well.
A lot of the cinematography is,I think, enhanced in the way it
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works and how it works for thebenefit of the film.
Because of my first takeaway,the locations I love, everywhere
this film was shot, listeningto some of the behind the scenes
stuff, the director reallywanted to represent an area she
knew very well.
She linked this movie to theway someone would look at a
Scorsese film or a Spike Leefilm of their versions of New
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York and she said she wanted toprovide a version of this area
in London that she knew verywell, and the movie is almost a
blend of imagination or a takeof a real area and also a lot of
authenticity of a real area,which was just such a nice blend
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of creating a world within anexisting world.
It honestly blew me away.
It was a movie that I didn'twant to look away from the
screen at any point because Iwas afraid of missing some of
the locations, and the fact thatthe cinematography is done in
such a creative way also helpedme want to keep my eyes glued on
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the screen.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, it looks so good.
I wonder if you've maybe watchedone of the same YouTube videos
that I did in terms of therepresentation of South London
and that really really coming tolife here.
I believe the TV show that Ilove which is called Trying, I
think that also takes place inSouth London and I don't know,
(07:58):
maybe because we live obviouslywe live in the States and it's
just so every city is coffee andpaste here.
There's so few cities with likeany type of personality or
anything like that and it kindof makes you like long for like
an actual neighborhood.
Like we're so far away fromthat now and obviously for a lot
(08:20):
of reasons most people keep tothemselves, but it just reminds
me of like when you do findthose hidden gems in
jacksonville, like the RiversideArts Market, you know, like Art
Walk and things like that.
It just wish, like it justmakes you wish you could go to a
place like that.
And again, from what Iunderstood from that video that
I watched, people were veryhappy and the reviews very happy
with how South London wasrepresented in terms of
(08:40):
community.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I'm going to go on two completely separate
rants of like thought processthat this movie made me feel,
which is not something you wouldnormally get out of me.
Number one I recently, aroundthe time of watching this I
don't know the validity of this,but ran across like a clip
explaining why restaurants, fastfood restaurants are starting
to all look the same yourMcDonald's, your Taco Bell's,
like the way they're designingthe buildings, and it's because
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when they go to sell them, likeyou know, if you think of the
McDonald's with the big ass M,if that store had to be sold,
there's such a limitation toselling that.
So now we're getting these cutand copy paste building designs
to go, for that reason, for likeagain, if it needs to be sold,
or anything like that.
On a complete contrast, we'retalking about the way this movie
looks in the locations.
(09:32):
It just made me think of AI,like how everything is like
being focused on, like how AI isbeing made.
You know Will Smith over heremaking AI crowds, that type of
shit right, there's no worldwhere something like this is
ever going to be trumped bysomething like that.
Like that.
I don't know why I'm not likepassionate on this topic, but I
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thought about that with thisfilm.
It was just like the way thisthing is authentic about the
locations and the style, like AIcould never.
Ai could never.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's all, Absolutely not, and even though,
like I do think, you arepassionate about it to a degree,
because we have so many artists, friends, and that's where it
comes at the forefront, so ourentire circle is creative.
So I am on board with you there.
Did you weave in your firsttakeaway or did you want to go
to it right now?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, no, my first takeaway was the locations.
Cool, Um.
So you know just kind of topair it with the cinematography.
So not exactly the same take,but it felt weird separating
that because, honestly, theirlocations were so enhanced by
the cinematography it felt likea nice compliment to that take.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Sure, Sure, well, I'll throw it back to you.
What is your second takeaway?
As we uh, as we do, snake draftstyle.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, obviously we're talkingabout the chemistry that I saw
from the trailer being extendedinto the film and a movie that
takes a lot of chances in therom-com genre.
I am not the biggest rom-comguy, phil, which is weird
because I won't shut the fuck upabout Pretty Woman this year,
so it's a really weird place forme to be.
(11:05):
But this movie is under an hourand a half and it almost is
purposefully dedicated to Domand Yaz.
And when I was thinking of mycritiques for the movie, there
were some other characters Iwould have liked to see a little
bit more like.
The dinner table scenespecifically is when I messaged
you to let you know hey, this isgoing to be the movie and it
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was something about thechemistry of those four actors
and actresses.
I mean the goofy dumb, like newboyfriend, and the
ex-girlfriend and the demeanor.
They're like classic rom-comstuff and normally they would be
more of a presence in adifferent rom-com.
And when I finished watchingthe movie I was like I kind of
wanted that, but then I realizedI was more like catered to that
(11:51):
.
That's what I'm normallycatered to.
This movie made sure we spentthe time with the most
interesting people and those twopeople are Dom and Yaz, which
obviously David Johnson andVivian Opara, fantastic,
absolute superstars, which is mytakeaway Not only just the
chemistry but the superstarquality of David and Vivian in
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these roles.
We've now seen David Johnson inAlien Romulus and we are going
to see him, I think, in the LongWalk this year, which I'm kind
of interested to see.
For some reason, I haven't seena lot from Vivian Opara since
this and that's kind of a crime,because she is equally a
superstar in her performance forthis movie and their chemistry,
(12:36):
absolutely undeniable, which isgoing to very greatly impact my
score for the film in apositive way yeah, we are.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I guess this will kind of this will also tie into
my second takeaway.
Is we're so conditioned, likeyou just mentioned, to what a
rom-com is, especially in 2025.
You know there have been somany attempts here recently to
kind of try and revive thatgenre and it is two
traditionally hot people thataren't going to have trouble
(13:09):
finding love, you know what Imean, like we're looking at you,
glenn powell and sydney sweeneylooking at you, pedro pascal
and chris evans, like evendakota johnson, is very
attractive, even though she hasthe personality of, like this
dead um blue yeti microphone.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Okay, stop, stop calm down you didn't have to go
there I came off of you and Iwas like wait, wait, wait, no,
no, no, no wait wait, no, I saidwhat I said.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Uh, so we're just so conditioned to like what a
rom-com is like.
It has a, it has a witty bestfriend, you know.
It has a, an ex an ex that'sgoing to show up and and
complicate things.
But that doesn't happen hereand, like you said, like in a
very short runtime.
You like, do buy into whatthey've built, because I think a
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lot of people, I know a lot ofpeople will see a lot of
themselves in both of thesecharacters, in both Dom and Yaz,
and some of the good anddefinitely some of the bad.
So the fact that this takescourse over, or like really over
a few hours, I think is great.
Again, I think that's also akind of a big city type of thing
(14:18):
.
Like you move to the big cityand even though you know South
London, I know, has itsprejudices and all that kind of
nonsense but you move to a bigcity, you meet, you have a meet
cute with somebody while you'rebawling your eyes out in the
bathroom and looking at picturesof mouths at an art gallery.
I'm just also going to put thisout here.
I'm also I'm really glad wedon't have that kind of artistic
friend in our life.
They're like I'm also.
I'm really glad we don't havethat kind of artistic friend in
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our life.
They're like come to my galleryand it's just pictures of
assholes.
I will say that I can't even belike yeah, this is really great
man.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I was really down for the mouths.
I was like, OK, that's kind ofinteresting.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And then when we got to the asses, I was like, oh,
all right, I'm the one where youcan kind of see the balls.
I got you, I got you.
Don't worry, ivan, there's acommission coming.
Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no,no, no, no.
So, yeah, I like that.
It bucked traditional rom-comtrends for the most part, which
we'll talk about in just amoment with my third takeaway.
But no, they are fantastic.
It's great to hear.
I didn't know that he was goingto be in the Long Walk and,
yeah, as far as Vivian'sperformance, I mean, even in
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interviews they have a crazychemistry which is just like man
, they really did nail it here.
So it was nice to see again anon-traditional, for the most
part rom-com, in an era wherethey're pumping them out and
they're just not very good.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, no, I think that's definitely it, and it
sounds like you might have moreto say.
I'm kind of curious how manycritiques you might have of this
film, which might be whereyou're going with your third one
.
So why don't you take the thirdtakeaway that you have before
we go into my final take?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, my final takeaway is I wasn't the biggest
fan of the ending, and here'smy thing, and this is where
personality comes into this alot and I just don't think that
Yaz was redeemable at the end,because if someone's going to
say that to you, that means theyhad it in their holster the
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entire time and I'm not going tospoil it, because you guys need
to watch this movie.
It's outstanding.
And I think I didn't buy intothe reclamation at the end as
far as them repairing what wasgoing on, and I just thought
that, like Dom is such a goodperson, I did buy.
I just thought that, like Domis such a good person, I did buy
into the thought that he would,you know, eventually forgive
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and forget.
But, like also, I thought thelesson he should have taken was
man, people, people are kind ofshitty.
I need to like look out formyself, not necessarily be an
asshole, because that's not whohe is.
He's a genuine kind heartedperson.
But I just didn't buy intoreally them coming back around
towards the end and that's why Ithink I didn't.
I know that's why I didn't giveit as a high score, as probably
(17:05):
you did.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It sounds you're gonna be fucking floored, man.
You're gonna be.
You do not know how much I lovethis movie.
That's why, for the thirdtakeaway, it was going to be
more of a question to you, whichwas how did you feel about the
ending?
Because, while I don't think Ilet it affect my score as much,
I'm curious what other critiquesyou might have in the movie for
what you might be giving it.
(17:27):
My only critique, honestly,other than the desire to maybe
see a little bit more of thecharacters, which an increased
runtime I think could bedangerous territory for a movie
like this.
But I think we had 10 moreminutes where that could have
just been fun.
You know I was.
I left the movie wanting more,which is a good thing.
But that ending, when they onlyknow each other for like a day
(17:52):
and they're very intentional tomake this like a day of these
two, and the chemistry and theconnection that they make of
these two, and the chemistry andthe connection that they make
it almost felt like a littledramatic, overdramatic, that
they would have all this time tohave to recover before
reconciling, when, like, theytook more time apart than they
were together, when they werenever really together, so it
(18:13):
didn't fully land for me, butnot in a way that I think left a
sour taste in my mouth, whichis why I mentioned that.
I think this movie, in additionto going along with your take,
maybe my final take too, is thatthis movie could have used a
little bit more time, in themost positive of ways, in almost
a complimentary way, because Ididn't want this day to end with
(18:35):
these characters and I reallywish we got to see a little bit
more.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It was very and I I think I would have taken another
10 minutes of the movie, but Ialso am totally okay with the
runtime.
It was like an extended sitcomepisode, like something I would
definitely want to sit down andwatch, like in you know, you
talk about them only reallyknowing each other, for I mean
less than 24 hours.
It reminds me of there's anepisode of how I met your mother
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in like the first season, andyou meet a.
He meets a girl named Victoriaat a wedding and they agree to
never see each other again afterthat wedding.
So of course the next day hespends his entire time tracking
her down and he finds her by theend of the very next episode.
But like this again, it was justvery much grounded in in
reality in terms of people thatare embarrassed about their past
, that they they know that theyhave weaknesses and they know
that they have points of theirlife that they need to to work
(19:25):
on.
They know they're easily takenadvantage of, they know that
they're broken, they know thatthey've gone through a lot and
take advantage of people and letpeople take advantage of them.
So but yeah, again, justbecause of that of the time that
they had known each other, orthe the lack of time that they
had known each other or the lackof time that they had known
each other.
I just had didn't truly buy inand honestly, like because of
her behavior, it just turned offby that comment by Yaz at the
(19:51):
end.
So you know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, totally fair, totally fair.
Again, I think we're both inalliances that that ending could
have been a little bit strongerof a landing and that, you know
, just affected you a little bitmore than it did me, because I
was just in complete awe of thisfilm.
So I know we're itching to hearwhat both of our scores were.
So, phil, if we want to maybetransition into that period, I
don't think there's much of aneed for a spoiler section of
(20:15):
this episode.
I cannot recommend this movieenough.
It might be better.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It of this episode.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I cannot recommend this movie enough.
It might be better Watch it.
It's on Hulu.
Yeah, it's 82 minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It might be better to just make you go instead of
stick around, if you're one ofthose people who like to listen
to other people talk aboutmovies that you've never seen,
so we're going to make you dothat.
But yeah, phil, if we want togo over scores in general
reception and all of that, agreat place to wrap things up.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, 98% tomato meter score over on Rotten
Tomatoes, 85% popcorn meterscore.
It has a 7.2 over on IMDB andon Letterboxd it's holding
strong at a very high 3.9.
I gave this a three and a halfand I, like you, when that
(21:01):
restaurant scene happens, it'slike this is outstanding and
again, like you said, sayingthat it falls apart at the end
is too strong because the restof the movie is so good.
But it did drop me from like afour to a three and a half
because I just couldn't quitebuy in to the reclamation, as I
mentioned at the end.
But three and a half andhonestly, if I watch this again
(21:25):
and and probably notice some ofthe things that I'm sure I
missed on a first watch, itcould go up to a four, but I sat
it at a 3.5 right now.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, that's fair, and I want to take the time to
mention how important it is tocontinue to prove my point about
this one point scale.
So I just want to take anopportunity that my opinion is.
I can probably justify a lot ofopinions within a one point
scale, which is giving you alittle bit of a spoiler what my
score is.
Phil, I had this voice like thefucking Joker in the Dark
(21:53):
Knight telling me you're goingto break your one rule, like I
swear to God, I was going togive this movie a five.
I was so fucking close thatending.
That ending doesn't do it forme.
On a second watch I mightforgive it.
I might forgive it because Ilove this movie so much.
Not only is it a 4.5, it'sprobably a 4.75.
It's that close.
(22:14):
It's probably the best movie Ihave seen.
Out of any film that we havecovered, that is not K-pop Demon
Hunters, if I'm beingcompletely honest, and even then
I got to tell you, phil, thisis an all-timer for me.
I am obsessed with this movie.
It's one of my favorite filmsthat we've watched in quite a
(22:36):
long time and on a rewatch, thisand Banshees are deserving a
rewatch, which is kind of crazy,because I just saw this.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Talk about two opposite.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Completely different movies.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Phil, I don't know what my taste is.
I don't know either.
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I don't know what that was.
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm just going to tell you now, though there's a
very good chance ryan lane atsome point or another enters my
top 25, if it hasn't already,and it could climb.
So I love this movie.
Here's what I say.
I will say filmmaking wise.
It could be a five in terms ofjust pure performances and
(23:15):
cinematography and music.
We even talk about the music.
Oh, my god, the music playssuch a big part in this.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
How is that not one of our takeaways?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The music plays such an amazing part in this.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is like when Botter failed the hip-hop
questions.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
How do we not bring up the music, the music and also
the storytelling, how they toldthe stories of them and the
audience?
God damn it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Start it over.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We're going to stop doing the three.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Hey, everyone welcome back to the Wayfarm Podcast.
We're going to stop doing thethree approach thing.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
The way that they told their stories and shared
their breakup storiesOutstanding too.
So, yeah, in terms of justfilmmaking in general, it's
probably a five, but story-wise,I knocked it off a little bit.
Before we get to where this ison our international feature
list, I do want to tell youwhere it would land in terms of
2023 films that I watched interms of just rom-com.
(24:01):
So they were I'm hesitant toput two movies on here as
rom-coms, but they have.
They have rom-com qualities.
So 2023, past lives came out.
Anyone but you no hard feelingswhich is the jennifer lawrence
movie, which is like it's not arom-com but it's like a
relationship movie and ghosted,and this is easily better than
(24:21):
all these movies except pastlives, and that's I mean.
Past lives is easily one of myfavorite films that we've
watched on this series and alsoover the last few years, but it
clears slop like anyone but you.
And even though I enjoy anyonebut you, ghosted is terrible.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No hard feelings was fine, but yeah, this easily
would have found its way into mytop 10 in 2023 yeah um based
and not not quite a rom-com, butthe other romance film that I
saw that year was uh, hi, nanaand uh.
This did pass that on myinternational feature list and,
if I'm being honest with you,phil, my top five movies from
(24:57):
2023 that I saw was out of the25 films I saw that year that
came out in that year was Acrossthe Spider-Verse, godzilla,
minus One, high Nana, elementaland Oppenheimer.
This movie might be one Lookingback.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Phil, you're not going to like what happened to
my international feature listBecause spoiler alert top five.
So I'm just letting you know.
I'm letting you know I neverthought when I pressed play that
I would have such an admirationfor what this film was doing
and what it accomplished.
And just from everything, fromthe, from the.
(25:36):
You know the representation inthe cast this is how you do.
Representation, by the way,from the authenticity, from the
mesmerizing explosion of colorthat is just thrown at you
almost like a dopamine hit everytime the scene changes.
Phil, God damn it.
It's so good, it's so good.
(25:56):
This is a movie I would go outof my way to talk to people
about.
I'm going to be fuckingannoying about this movie.
Move over, pretty woman.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
If only it had Pedro Pascal in it.
You know, maybe it just neededa little bit more Dakota Johnson
.
We really just needed DakotaJohnson.
And who's another like boringNepo?
Who's a boring Nepo?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
male actor's and that's like the.
That's the thing, right?
Imagine replacing vivian uhopara with dakota johnson.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Totally different movie, no matter how good of an
actor david johnson is.
I want my tribe called questrecord back.
That means a whole lot to me.
I really love tribe calledquest, like Like, do you Are you
sure?
Also Colin Firth is in this.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, we didn't bring that up.
I wanted to make sure I broughtthat up.
How did you feel about that?
I thought that was cool.
Did you know what the referencewas?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
He's in Love Actually , which is, I think, a movie
we've considered watching before.
And he's the tortilla chef of arestaurant called Guac Chilly,
so it's a callback to LoveActually.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Is it the same character?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, it's just an uncredited.
It's like a tip of the hat tomovies that Colin Firth has been
in.
The director had said that shesent him a letter because she
thought it'd be a fun nod and hesaid yes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
He said he'll do the cameo, which I think think is
just really cool if you like thecinematographer for this and
also just kind of the setting ofsouth london, I think you would
enjoy trying on apple tv.
It's not a one that I championa whole lot because it is very
niche.
It's about a couple that istrying to adopt children and
it's it's fantastic.
It makes you forget how badRafe's ball is in Jurassic World
(27:41):
, fallen Kingdom, because he'sin that Pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, but as far as where Rylane falls on my
international feature list, itis top five.
It is number five.
It has cleared films like K-Pop, demon Hunters, high Nana, old
Boy and it's just below.
Only four films for me rr,memories of murder, train to
busan and the banshees ofinishirin and which is crazy
(28:08):
because how much you love highnana?
I love high nana.
You know there's that one partof the movie which is
specifically, I think, the musicvideo that it almost it's just
really weird.
If you cut that out of the movieit's like it's very much I
might add Hainana to myrewatches, because if I cry
(28:28):
again, I'm definitely giving ita five.
K-pop Demon Hunters again Ijust bumped that up to four and
a half.
But yeah, the Banshees ofInushaeran and Rai Lane I don't
know that it'll clear banshees,because I think banshees is
secretly a five and I just keeppushing off my second watch
through of it to give it thefive it deserves.
(28:49):
But fuck man, it's.
It's so close and I again fell.
I cannot believe.
When the credits ran I was likethat's one of the best movies
that I've seen in the pastdecade.
And maybe not the best, but oneof my favorite movies from the
past decade.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, no, don't blame me.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's the international feature version of
Puss in Boots.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Take a shot.
Take a shot every time youbring up Rylane.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It's going to get there, I'm going to be fucking
it.
It was going to be pretty woman, which I also adore.
Pretty woman's right here, likethey're both.
They're both a four and a half.
They're right together.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, so it is lower, so it is number 20, right
behind Tokyo, godfather isperfect days, movies like that,
but in front of like nation oneUltraman, rising children,
children of men, but yeah, Imean.
But listen, you're also talkingabout a lot of these movies, 17
(29:45):
and up being fours for me andagain on a rewatch.
It could easily go up to a four, because I will watch this
again and I will watch it withpeople, because it's just that
enjoyable this movie is a four.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I mean I know you're not giving it it, but it's a
four.
I mean I know you, I know youdon't know any better, so I'm
just gonna speak to them.
I'm gonna speak to future youbecause, like you're, the only
thing you've really critiqued isthe ending, and I think a one
and a half point deduction foran ending, unless it's lala land
doesn't really make a lot ofsense.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You hear what I'm saying well, land has two
traditionally hot people and godlegend's best friend, I don't
know that felt that's whathollywood wants right that felt
a little prejudice there.
Um, it's fine no, hollywood isnot the fact that no one talks
(30:37):
about this movie.
That's not precious.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
White people and jazz not racist.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You know who jazz really needs Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
And Emma Stone, who couldn't possibly be whiter.
If she tried, she literallycouldn't.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
She's Chinese, haven't you seen?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Aloha, she's the sister of Scarlett Johansson.
You're saying, right, right,exactly, we've gone off the
fucking rails here.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I was going to say this is where we need to wrap up
the episode.
We're not going to make it outalive.
Go watch Rylane and if you havewatched it yourself, let us
know what you thought and whatyou thought of the characters
and the cinematography.
And yeah, it's just a movie youneed to experience yourself.
Once again, it's not going totake you a whole lot of time and
I think you'll come away very,very pleased that you had given
(31:23):
it a shot.
But if you're new to thepodcast and you gave us a shot,
thank you very much, and for allof you returning listeners as
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All the free stuff Philmentioned helps out a ton.
But with all that being said,we've reached the end of our
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