Movie Review: 'Love the One You Love' is a cinematic treat

18 September 2015 - 02:13 By Tymon Smith

Winner of the best South African feature film award at last year's Durban International Film Festival, Jenna Bass's Love the One You Love, breathes a blast of creative, resourceful energy into the local cinema scene. It's a film that will make you laugh, cry and think about what it is that pushes humans together and why they often drift apart.Shot for what has been described as a "nano-budget" using consumer cameras and relying heavily on the improvisational talents of its cast, it's a story of love gone wrong in the Mother City.Phone sex operator Terri (Chi Mhende) and her dog handler boyfriend Sandile (Andile Nebulane) are a democratic, modern young couple who everyone thinks are destined to be together forever.When Terri decides that she wants a change and investigates the idea of moving to Korea, it seems as if everyone and everything in the world are determined to prevent her from breaking apart her relationship.Interwoven with this main thread is the story of Eugene (Louw Venter), an IT technician who can't get over his ex-girlfriend.Shot in the hand-held, claustrophobic, documentary style of the 1990s Danish Dogme films, it's a brave and mostly successful examination of both the highs and lows of a universal journey that is also rooted in the culture of Cape Town.'Love the One You Love' shows at The Bioscope in Johannesburg and The Labia in Cape Town from today...

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