Make Up

A young women discovers more than she expected when she goes to live with her boyfriend on a bleak Cornwall caravan park as the season closes. Conjuring an array of potential outcomes from the off, it's left to the viewer to fill in the gaps and provide the explanations for their meaning as the haunting, occasionally claustrophobic and suffocating sequences play out - for real or imagined. Ultimately a voyage of discovery, that stays in the shallows, doesn't sail too far from the coastline, narrating a familiar tale but done so in an imaginative way.

I'm not quite sure what I've just watched .

The trailer indicated that this was some sort of Psychological horror but far from it .

It starts off with a young woman who goes to stay with her long term boyfriend in a caravan park in Cornwall and starts to she suspect her boyfriend has cheated on her but when her suspicions ease it she who embarks on tasting the forbidden fruit.

I quite like the first half this film. The non trippy part , you might say , but the the longer the film went on the weirder it got and less likeable the film became.

The performances are ok but not enough to give the film any heft and in the end it pretty much just fizzles out despite the decisions Ruth makes .

Disappointing.

This was a confusing and complicated movie. It wasn't a bad movie, overall, but it was just too, too slow and very confusing. Maybe I missed something but I doubt I'll watch it again tonfigure out what it was. I'm still not sure what this movie was about and I don't care to find out.

I enjoyed watching this. It did not easily fit into any genre, and was all the better for that. A rather episodic film, with no clear linear narrative, but it still retained my interest throughout.

It really captured the bleak, barreness of an out of season caravan park, with its motley collection of residents with nowhere else to go.

A bit overloaded with symbolism at times, but definitely worth watching in my view.

'Make Up (2019)' follows a young woman who moves to a caravan park in Cornwall in order to be with her long-term boyfriend. As she adjusts to her new life, she finds herself increasingly unsettled by a mysterious redhead and the gnawing feeling that something just isn't right. The piece is a small, isolated experience that focuses on putting you in the perspective of its quiet main character. Its story is a blend of the overtly mundane and the subtly bizarre. As such, its genre is difficult to define. It really is an odd one, a relationship drama infused with often genuinely unsettling suspense - the stuff that belongs in a straight-up horror. That contrast creates an uneven experience that often feels like it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. That's actually rather fitting in retrospect, as uncertainty is a major theme of the movie, but it makes for an inconsistent in-the-moment experience. On top of that, the affair sometimes borders on being dull. It gets increasingly interesting as it goes on, though, and it does a good job of putting you in the head of its protagonist. It often succeeds in getting under your skin, featuring several disquieting scenes that almost put actual horror films to shame. Once you realise what it's doing (and has been doing all along), it becomes a lot more interesting. It explores its themes in a rather innovative way, subtly and slowly unravelling its material. It isn't exactly exciting but it is often engaging. It's a solid and unconventional first-time effort. 6/10