SLIM, BUT STRONG

New movie Great Great Great lives up to two-thirds of its title

GREAT GREAT GREAT

★★ ★ 1/2 out of 5

Cast: Dan Beirne, Sarah Kolasky, Meredith Cheesbrough, Richard Clarkin

Director: Adam Garnet Jones

Duration: 1 h 20 m

Dan Beirne and Sarah Kolasky, the stars of Great Great Great, have dreadful chemistry.

This would normally be a big shortcoming, but in writer-director Adam Garnet Jones’s movie (co-written by Kolasky) it’s kind of the point. Tom and Lauren have been in a relationship for five years, but in spite of being newly engaged, the 30-year-old bride-to-be isn’t sure this is right for her.

Sarah’s parents have just

divorced after decades together. Tom is an out-of-work urban planner who goes to the gym and plays with Lego between looking for jobs. And an old flame of Sarah’s (Richard Clarkin) has just starting working for her company in Toronto. Proximity breeds trouble.

The story that follows runs a slim 80 minutes and follows Sarah’s uncomfortable backand-forth behaviour, including overcompensation, guilt, casual cruelty and a kind of sleepwalking if-I-ignore-this-maybe-it’llgo-away. We don’t know how this story is going to end, and neither does she — which is also kind of the point.

Great Great Great doesn’t quite deserve that three-handed title, but it comes pretty close.

Great Great Great follows the confusion of a young woman, played by Sarah Kolasky, about whether or not to marry her boyfriend, played by Dan Beirne.