CinemaBlend
It kind of feels like all of us have been trapped in
Long Weekend. Which helps to make the new indie romantic escape from writer-director Stephen Basilone so welcome at a time like now. So much of our entertainment consumption has been about bingeworthy TV shows and blockbusters that were supposed to come to theaters but now appear in our living rooms. We miss the modest-budgeted, character-driven and high-concept stories, the ones youâd discover at a film festival and spend weeks raving to your friends about it.
Long Weekend is that kind of movie, though it has secrets that we need to guard with our lives. We can sing about chemistry found in its leads, Finn Wittrock and Zoe Chao. He plays a man getting over a vicious breakup, and she⦠well, she comes around at just the right time. Part of their courtship involves an original song that Chaoâs character, Vienna, has to perform on the fly, to prove something to Wittrockâs character, Bart. So when I spoke with the two about their movie, I brought up the song, and her story is in the clip above.