I Used to Be Darker

I wanted to like this movie more than I did and while I did give it 6 out of 10 stars (that's basically a D in my book), it had potential to be more. Thankfully, I saw it on DVD which had the deleted scenes on it. I don't know why, but they cut an opening sequence that set the groundwork for the entire movie (it was probably about a 10 minute sequence in a movie that only ran an hour and 30 minutes, so editing it out for time really wasn't the reason). It also had more of Adele Exarchopoulos which is the only reason I checked this out in the first place. Cutting 90 percent of her screen time was a bad choice and totally uncalled for. As far as the rest of it goes, this movie couldn't decide if the focus was on Taryn or the musician parents getting divorced. Also, there seemed to be unnecessarily long music sequences and shots of swimming that were pointless. There honestly is a scene where one of the main characters jumps into the pool, swims off screen, comes back into frame and gets out of the pool? What on earth was the point of that scene? If there was a scene to cut over the opening sequence, that was the one. Minor gripes aside, Deragh Campbell as Taryn definitely stood out above the rest of the main cast (in her first role no less according to this site), although Hannah Gross (who has gone on to much bigger things in the decade since this was released) had a nice supporting role as well. I give this movie 6/10 stars only because the opening deleted scene was on the disc. It would've been 4/10 otherwise. If you want to see this, find the deleted scenes.