(The End of Love, 90 mins) The End of Love offers audiences glimpses into the life of a
struggling actor trying to care for his young son after his wife dies. The film
is directed, written, stars, and produced by Mark Webber, whose real life baby plays his child in the movie. The film
blurs the line between documentary and drama – actors and friends of Webber’s
play versions of themselves and go
by their actual names, but the interactions between the characters are scripted
and fictionalized. The father-son relationship in the film feels authentic
because, well, it is, yet a huge component has been altered – the role of the
mother, who in real life is still alive. This detail was confusing and
unsettling for me and I couldn’t get fully immersed in the film because I
couldn’t figure out what it was trying to be.
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