Love Tomorrow – Film Review

Cindy Jourdain stars as Eva, a troubled ex-ballet dancer who meets Oriel (Arionel Vargas) a handsome Cuban dancer in London when he follows her out of the Tube system at Camden Town. He’s insistent, but she’s not interested. He keeps talking and he seems kind of nice. They go for a drink. And they then over the next 24 hours or so have a kind of brief encounter that’s as morose and doomy as Celia Johnson’s and Trevor Howard’s in Brief Encounter.

Though pretty much made for each other, it looks like they’ve just got too much baggage to turn their promising budding fragile friendship into a deep relationship. Or have they?

With some shaky dialogue, moderate performances and iffily handled scenes, it’s not seamless or perfect. But it is quite enjoyable, amusing and even touching at the end. And the film remains in the mind afterwards, when some better films don’t, so it must be quite haunting.

Writer-director Christopher Payne does quite a good job on a low budget, with striking, moody cinematography and a convincing, grungy London atmosphere. The dance background and dance scenes seem just right. And so do Jourdain and Vargas. You want to tell them to snap out of it and get on with it, and at the end, they kind of do.

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