OCTOPUS FILM FESTIVAL
LAST SUMMER
Watchable. This Welsh effort attempts to paint the rolling pastures blood red. It starts with cruelty to animals which is ominous as a gruesome incident follows. Where the rest of the story is going isn't clear, two-dimensional characters fail to provide an account to the gory events of the first act, let alone the disturbingly brutal reality of this isolated countryside. Nor is it quite clear why it's set in the 70s. Well, the world was less gentle then and the rough-and-ready storytelling style reflects that. But the plot itself is timeless. Hang on, what plot? The crime is evident, not much of a puzzle to solve. The aftermath of a split family is so ropey it comes with a number of loose ends. The first act bloodbath creates the morbid urge to see it through to the end but the movie's so execrable you wish you had never started.
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