Cheating is better with someone. Some movies need to be watched in a special mood, because these films are really special and require a complete immersion: without distraction for any little things, whether it is a sandwich or a phone call. Alison Bagnall's indie film The Dish & the Spoon (2011) You need to dive in. Catch that autumn, such a melancholy-in-love mood, let it grab you. Definitely. A good movie. Movies aren't for everyone. A movie that leaves a pleasant aftertaste. Sad but pleasant.
A young woman Rose (the same "Sweet Frances" Greta Gerwig) learns about her husband's infidelity and runs away from home as is in her pajamas. She doesn’t have a wallet with her, she scrapes change in her pockets, buys booze and is sad. And then he meets him - a young Englishman, still a boy, without a past (?), in a black coat, with some utter chaos on his head and with money in his wallet. Two strangers who needed each other like air were found. She needs him to survive the rage and pain that tears her from within; he needs her as a first real feeling, as a person who will make him believe in himself. They will be silent, walk, drink, play changing clothes, go fishing, take pictures in wedding dresses, kiss, dance... Of course, he will fall in love with her, and she will... she will freak out, call her husband and scream in the phone, look for the same separation... And everything will end, of course, banal and vital. There is something doomed in the very end of this story, which was defined from the beginning, otherwise it could not be simple. It all ended well, but not well, not well. And personally, I felt a painful sadness when the credits went and again this thought: “Oh, these women!!!” What are they doing?!! Yes, I am a romantic, and I wanted a completely different ending, but it is possible only in Disney films.
Separately, I would like to highlight Ollie Alexander from the cast. He's just wonderful. It is a pity that so little is removed and rarely in the lead roles, but I remember him even in the secondary ones and in “Good Day for a Wedding”, and in “Scary Tales”, and in “The Rebel Club”. Again, the British can and do play.
Excellent camera work and musical accompaniment. If you like low-budget independent film, the so-called indie, then welcome to this sad autumn story of impossible falling in love.
8 out of 10