This is the story of two lonely people going through the lives. One is a talented photographer getting ready for a show in the wake of a death of a loved one. The other is a theatrical lighting designer. This is a deliberately shot film. Director Paul Schwartz and his cinematographer lean into the artistic and lighting elements of the lead characters with compositions that mirror works of art. I mention this up front because it took me a few moments to realize why some of the shots were framed as they were. Several scenes are played as tableaux. I mention it because until the obvious clicked with me I was wondering why the shots were set up as they were.
I rather liked STOP TIME. Yes, the setup of two people meeting and changing each other in some way has been done before, but how it’s done here is nicely atypical. I like that we get some set up of the characters before they are brought together. I also like the course that everything takes is not what we expect, either from all the films we’ve seen before or from what we know of the characters. There is a lovely shading that we don’t normally get.
The performances by Nelson Avidon and Tara Westwood are also quite good. It’s always nice to have leads who haven’t been in a lot of other things, simply because it makes the people on screen seem more real.
This is a nice little gem of a film and worth a look.
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