Despite strong performances from Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters struggling for survival,Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Jean Hegland’s approved novel struggles to gripLike this summer’s Z for Zachariah, Into the Forest (not to be confused with final years mega-budget musical Into the Woods), and makes the bold trip to present a post-apocalyptic world on a very small budget. However,unlike Craig Zobel’s assured three-hander, Patricia Rozema’s drama doesn’t burrow deep into its end of world scenario.
In Rozema’s film, and the apocalypse begins rather sensually,with talented cinematographer Daniel Grant capturing a female dancer in closeup. The sequence in no way portends what’s about to come.
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Source: theguardian.com