Film Review – A Beautiful Now

Writer/director Daniela Amavia doesn’t make it easy for the audience in “A Beautiful Now.” Inspecting waves of depression and life mismanagement hitting an aging dancer all at once, the picture almost resembles a filmed play, showing most interest in its ensemble and their special ways of working out character detail while managing paragraphs of dialogue. The verbosity of the effort is occasionally aggravating, but the core emotions of “A Beautiful Now” come through with real power at times. Amavia makes her feature-length helming debut here, and she’s managed a sensitive take on gut-rot feelings and suicidal urges, trying to understand the people behind pronounced agitation instead of indulging tiresome hysterics from beginning to end. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com