The premise (or gimmick) is simple enough: one man, one woman, one day, 20 years. Before anybody saw it, One Day received attention as a potential Oscar contender, largely due to director Lone Scherfig and the acclaim for her 2009 film An Education. But One Day is, at best, a mediocre romance and possibly a genuine waste of life. Read further as both of us detail the extent of our disappointment.
Mediocre moments and dulling distance make One Day feel like one decade *1/2
by Kayleigh Roberts
One Day clocks in at one hour and 47 minutes, but the running time feels much closer to the 24 hours implied in the title. The premise is interesting enough – following the development of two people’s relationship via only snippets of one day in their life each year, July 15. Predictably, July 15 turns out to be an eerily significant day in their lives year after year. Unpredictably, however, even their significant days are largely uninteresting.
Forced but sloppy, One Day is an excruciating experience with almost no value *1/2
by Todd Kushigemachi
Director Lone Scherfig’s An Education is wonderful. Despite its eyeroll-worthy Oxford-fixes-everything conclusion, the film captures the uncertainties and pleasures of youth with a rare effortlessness. Unlike most Academy Award-nominated films, it felt like a genuine slice of life rather than a cold calculation. It seems unimaginable that the same director would be responsible for One Day, a film that manages to both suffocate itself with its contrivances and flail around with no sense of direction.
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