Loving Annabelle is a movie that covers a lot of controversial territory. Not only is it about a teacher and student falling for each other but, it happens to be a female student and female teacher at a private all girl Catholic school.
It is the student (Annabelle) who pursues the teacher. I found it interesting how the teacher did several things to try and avoid situations that put them together. Yet at the sametime I think she did other things not because she necessarily was looking for something to happen between them but, because she was hoping to get Annabelle to stop being so rebelious.
The story was very strong and well written. The movie itself was put together very well. For an indie film with a very short shooting schedule it had very high production value. The one thing that really hurt the film was it's ending. Or lack there of. It needed a stronger more real ending. And there was plenty of room time wise for it because it was only 77 minutes long.
Some answers as to the shortness of the movie were given in the commentary track. Commentary that I was very disappointed in since the director barely let Ering Kelly (Annabelle) speak. And for the most part all the director could do was complain about not having enough time or money to do the things she wanted. I finally stopped listening to it because every scene I was really interested in hearing about was just more whining.
But that really had nothing to do with the movie. It was good and I would have liked getting to see it on the big screen. Thanks to the not so great ending though it would have only been worth matinee price at best.
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Did everybody jump into a pool at the end of the movie?
77 minutes is really short. I am leary of films that can't crack 90 minutes.
No they didn't but, that would have been a much better ending. I haven't seen that movie forever.
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