Breathe In (2013)
Directed by Drake Doremus
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
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What critics compared Breathe In to
This is not the first time Doremus, best known for his contemporary-set romantic dramas “Like Crazy” (2011) and “Breathe In” (2013), has likened his characters to Romeo and Juliet, and certain myth-minded viewers may also discern shades of Eurydice and Orpheus hovering over the plot.
With his past two movies Like Crazy and Breathe In, the director showcased his knack for tapping into intimacy on a base human level.
Working from a stagnant script by Nathan Parker (“The Moon”), director Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy,” “Breathe In”) formulaically paces the dismal, corporate-conformity allegory.
Directed by Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy,” “Breathe In”) from a screenplay by Nathan Parker (“Moon”), the movie, shot mostly in Japan, is a paper-thin allegory set in a postapocalyptic time after war has decimated the world’s population.
With Equals, Doremus finds (or grants himself) another opportunity to stick to what he knows best and brews his story in the intimate pain of impossible love, as he did with Like Crazy (lovers separated by geography and visa status) and Breathe In (lovers separated by age and marital status).
Director Drake Doremus has so far - in his Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011) and Breathe In (2013) - established a reputation for making serious dramatic mileage out of the agonies of modern love, but the glum and earnest Equals shows him on less certain ground.
The production, shot on location in New York's Duchess County, is meticulously realized and while aspects of the story recall other works (the aforementioned 'Walking Dead,' "Signs," "Breathe In" to name a few), it is entirely its own thing.