This Must Be The Place - Review

Black comedies always walk a very fine line but when its done well they can be fabulous so I was really curious to see this very promising dark comedy … Unfortunately it didnt even truely show that in the end .The film has such a major change im going to divide it into the comedy first half and the overly profound 2nd half

for the first half with an interesting and sweet relationship between our main character and his enthusiastic wife was really well done and fun to watch it develop as you begin to understand themthis and the minor characters he surrounds himself with such as the business woman no nonsense mother, the confused gothic teenager and the lude builder friend make for an interesting mixture .It wasn’t looking like an amazing genre defining idea but still funny and somewhat memorable and had the film just brought the characters to life more it would have been really fun and interesting .

However as soon as we leave Dublin it goes down hill in the 2nd half and leads to a wondering ill defined idea where in he takes a road trip while looking for daddies love and a nazi Auschwitz and he is also taking this guys car to his wife ?? It loses the easy comedy which was carried through the first half and instead feel painful as it tries to replicate the easy introduction of characters carried in the first half 

The shooting in the first half was some of the best as their was a comedy in what wasnt said which i really enjoyed and thought was clever but again it just went astray in the second half 

While I can understand the ideas projected behind it of all people wondering and I see what they were trying to do i think the film was confused as to its own direction which didnt look intentional but more as though it was imploding the longer the film went on .

Final Word :

 Theirs always room with movies like these for people to find them works of art and the undiscovered genius but with this film i feel the scope for that is limited .The moments of subtle still comedy as well as the one liners are worth a look but honestly if you see the trailer you get most of them . 

4/10