Movie of the Week: Kodachrome
Alexa: After reading the New York Times article that inspired “Kodachrome,” I find myself immensely frustrated by all the clever things this movie could have been and wasn’t. In her review for Entertainment Weekly, Leah Greenblatt says the film “feels like it was generated by a Sundance screenwriting app,” and she hits the nail right on the head. It’s as formulaic as indie dramedies come, for all the pros and cons that go along with that. The New York Times piece hints at an assortment of interesting photographers who, for a whole host of reasons, have held onto their devotion to Kodachrome film until the last possible second. There is a breadth of clever territory for the filmmakers to mine for this story, perhaps a rich ensemble of characters and a deeper exploration of what photography means to society - a theme the film barely scratches the surface of in the third act. But instead they settle for the familiar strokes of long-gestating issues between children and their pa...