Nothing really happens - there's nothing to drive their relationship forward or test their limits or to develop them as characters that we can care about, relate to, and understand. There are no friends around, no jobs to go to, no competition for affection, and no parents aside from the last few minutes. These girls fall in love with each other in a complete vacuum. Apart from the the father, there is absolutely NOTHING driving the plot. Now I *might* could suspend belief long enough when it came to this weird forced eroticism if the rest of the story had been convincing.but it isn't. The end result comes off as attempt at eye candy under the guise of of male's vision of what two women look like.
It was more like drunken lust, but even all the a** grabbing and rough kissing looked awkward and struck me as that of rushed, groping teenagers. There was zero sensuality during any given encounter. They would go from sweet nothings to forceful, aggressive making out they would be having a random conversation about life and suddenly one of them would pounce on the other.lesbians or not, *people* don't do this. I don't know if these women were uncomfortable with the homosexual aspect, if their acting was just *that* bad, or if the director had an unnatural vision of what women in love really looked like. There are worse films out there I suppose, but where "The Guest House" falters is not its production values or low budget, but the fact that the love story between the two characters is so empty and their affection is so forced. By the end of the film, it really does feel like they've been on a real (though fast) journey.Īnd it is those two actresses (Ruth Reynolds and Madeline Merritt) that do elevate this film beyond being cheap and schlocky. And their romantic chemistry is there, both physically and emotionally.
"Porn acting" would actually be a compliment to these guys.Īll that said, the two female leads really do bring the film WAY UP they are clearly comfortable with each other, and when they are talking to each other, it's very clear that they are developing at the very least a deep friendship. And the two main male characters are so poorly acted, that it is beyond simply being laughable. There are a few narrative points that with some very minor changes could have made the overall story of the two leads' "self-discovery" much more believable. The overall production does scream cheap, with the majority of the film either being limited to two people in a room, or clearly being shot "guerilla style" to save money. That said, the editing does keep it from feeling overly salacious and appealing to the lowest common denominator. There is a lot that actually makes the film feel like something on late-night premium cable that has been just edited enough, if you know what I mean.
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