Film Review – Lonely Planet

While primarily valued for her work in intense dramas, Laura Dern gets a chance to enjoy her time with cinematic fluff in “Lonely Planet.” It’s the new film from writer/director Susannah Grant, who hasn’t made a movie since 2006’s middling “Catch and Release,” and she’s not taking on a major creative challenge with the feature. It’s vacation destination time for the cast and crew, with the material exploring the magical ways of Morocco, which carries a special influence over the lead characters as they engage in the slow simmer of mutual attraction. There’s little in “Lonely Planet” that thrills, with Grant going for an easy lay-up with the picture, as it primarily deals with easily solvable problems facing people who seem to lack basic human understanding at times. But there’s Dern, who tries to bring some feeling to the endeavor, and her effort is appreciable in an otherwise bland offering of romance and pretty views. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com