The Singing Forest
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Craig Pinkston, Erin Leigh Price, Jon Sherrin Director: Jorge Ameer Cinematographer: Gary Tachell DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 91 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-08-31 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Vanguard Cinema |
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Movie Reviews of The Singing Forest
Movie Review: Psychic-Driven Love Five-Some
Summary: 2 Stars
"The Singing Forest" DVD has the 69-minute feature film, four short films (about 19 minutes in total), a trailer to the feature, and a film gathering highlights of the director's career.
"The Singing Forest" is a story of reincarnated love. Columnist Christopher Hayes (played by Jon Sherrin) has learned from psychic Elvia Flores (played by Toni Zobel) that he is the reincarnation of a man named Jo who helped the Jews against the Nazis. Jo had a boyfriend named Alexander. It turns out that Christopher's daughter, Destiny (played by Erin Leigh Price) is getting married. When Christopher meets the groom-to-be, model Ben Ross (played by Craig Pinkston), Christopher believes Ben is the reincarnated Alexander. Matters play out from here to an unstable conclusion.
I had a hard time believing that the belief in a past-life romance would be a sufficient inducement to flip two nominally straight men into an age-discordant gay relationship with so little resistance from either. The Nazi-era Jo-Alexander relationship was not shown effectively. The daughter's reaction to all of this was initially believable but drifted into the fantastic.
The film tries to make all of this palatable with skin shots of Christopher and the very handsome Ben and by having Christopher look only about five years older than Ben or Destiny, instead of the twenty-plus he would normally be. There were no Jo-Alexander skin shots.
The DVD cover shows a shirtless Alexander (Pinkston) with Jo (Erik Morris) in blatantly inaccurate Nazi garb (e.g., the swastika is not symmetrical). These scenes do not appear in the movie. The two small stills on the DVD back are variants of what happens in the final scene.
The sound was intrusive, with breaking waves, barking dogs, or loud music often drowning out the dialogue.
The black and white Nazi scenes, with a mix of new and stock footage, had some effective images. I found annoying the title card announcing the Nazi scenes took place in 1933 but showing photos from 1945's concentration camp liberations. Jo was said to have been executed as the Soviets approached Berlin, in 1945. There is a big time gap that was never explained.
The opening shot shows an ill Christopher vomiting his alcohol into a toilet with Ben standing nearby. An essentially identical scene happens later in the film. I could spot no good reason to start the film this way. Additionally, Christopher catches Ben taking drugs once but complains about it some time later only once in private and in anger.
Two of the four short films are pretty good. "Uninhibited" maintains good suspense as a man comes home to discover a straight couple having sex in his bedroom. "Misguided Piss" shows a misadventure in cruising in a men's room. The other shorts, "My Straight Boyfriend" and "Popcorn & Coke" are less engaging.