Forgetting the Girl follows head-shot photographer Kevin Wolfe, played hauntingly by Christopher Denham, as he tries to find a girl to get lost in while at the same time remember how his sister died. His constant rejection starts to take an emotional and psychological toll on him, and as the movie progresses not everything is really as it seems. Kevin relies on "forgetting girls" who he feels have wronged him or rejected him. The movie is a mixture of gorgeous shots of New York City and a dark, dark story that has no redemption.
Christopher Denham did an amazing job as Kevin. You do feel for him up until the very end of the movie, and his voice over work really pulls you in to his world, even if it isn't a very pretty world. He does spend a good chunk of the film sitting on a bar stool going over past female rejections, and he still manages to make you feel some sympathy, not a lot mind you, but enough to where you think to yourself "Oh, I've been there"¦ kinda"¦ okay, he just went too far"¦" As you listen to him retell the viewer about all the "No's" he receives what becomes painfully obvious is that sometimes it's the "YES" you don't expect that only leads to a much larger letdown. Anna Camp and Elizabeth Rice play Adrienne Gilcrest and Beth Dalewell, respectively. Both are the only girls who say yes to Kevin only for him to take his feelings to a level unheard of, and both girls play their roles as you would hope. By that, I mean that they won't make you leaving the theater going "WOW! that was amazing," but on the other hand, they don't leave you going "well"¦ that was horrible." They play their parts and do a fine job at it. The best female lead in the movie is the character Jaime, played by Lindsay Beamish. Jaime is Kevin's make-up artist, and she is a few screws short of a complete set, but Lindsay does such a great job in this movie. She is the yin to Christopher Denham's yang.
The cinematography for this movie is amazing. The colors are vivid and crisp. The camera crews deserve a lot of credit for capturing New York in such lights. The direction by Nate Taylor should also be commended here. He does great work with camera angles and movement (and yes, even non-camera movement is movement). He gives the characters and their settings life. Each location gives you a startling glimpse at who that person is (example: Jaime's apartment, or what we see of it, is very dark and messy, which is a great reflection of who she is is).
The main drawback and the reason why this gets the grade that it does is the end story line. There is no redemption or consequences. There are story lines and characters that get dropped, and you are left wondering what happened to them. In the end, stay home and watch it on iTunes or On Demand when it comes out. This is a good movie with an ending that has a good, but predictable, twist but the reverberations from that twist ultimately hurt the film in this reviewer's humble opinion.
