Rain

'You are your child's keeper
until she's mature enough to keep herself' ~ Laura Ramirez


Rain, by Cristine Jeffs, is a coming of age film that deals with issues of family breakdowns and sexual awakening. Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki plays Janey, her performance is what makes the film remotely good, during the scene of the death of her brother the desperation in her voice and body language is incredible, the audience knows what she is thinking just in her facial expressions.


Another brilliant and impressive actor is one who plays Jim, Aaron Murphy, he is so young yet his performance is remarkable. The two youngest in the film deffinatly out show the older actors and actresses. Even though the long pauses between conversation is probably a director trying to be arty, it makes it seem as though the actors have forgotten their lines and I lost interest in the dialogue.


There are a number of interesting shots in the film however they dont seem to merge or match together very well. They almost seem to be there for the sake of having some inbteresting shots and show off some artistic style. The shot of mother Kate (Sarah Peirse) walking through the shallow waters to the shore from the boat has a really interesing angle and great view, however it seems as though she is walking along the water for such a long time and for what reason?? They even used this image on the front cover of the DVD... they must have just really liked it theres no otheer reason for it to go on for so long. The next scene just doesn't go on from that, like when she is washing lemons in the sink, it becomes a slow motion moment of her hands brushing over the lemons??

The characters were not set up very well for example i dont think we got a grasp as to the kind of person Ed was and then all of a sudden he was kissing Janey after having slept with her mother, it just doesnt seem realistic. I think most of the attention was spent on the two youngest Janey and Jim as their characters and acting is actually quite good however if only they cared to focus a bit more attention on the otheer characters and less attention on the way the story was shot it might have worked.