The film is the story of Lily and Brandon, influencers, who are trying to make a film.
Matthew Kyle Levine is one of the great directors that most of you haven't heard of. His film are small gems that have moments that haunt me. The images and the head space of ON THE PHONE haunt me. Shot on film, the images feel as though I've seen them for years and are part of my life. The image below being one of them.
What I love about Levine's films is that there is a sense of reality. Yes, we are watching a film, and the story is very deliberate in construction. However, at the same time the film feels like we are watching reality. We are on this farm. We are with these people, and we are witnessing their lives. What makes Levine's films so staggeringly good is that he doesn't stage his films on sets. Levine places us in real places. We are in Lilly's mom's home. We can walk into this place and really be there.
Levine also gives us real characters. He picks actors who don't seem like actors. He gives them dialog which seems natural and what Lilly or Brandon would say, even the monologues are not theatrical but self absorbed people speaking.
This is an awesome film.
Mathhew Kyle Levine needs to make a feature - and you need to track this film and his others down and watch them.
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