A Love Song (2022)

Faye is waiting. At a campsite on a lake, in the shadow of a mountain, she waits. She catches her meals from the lake, identifies birds, and spins the dial on her portable radio to hear the perfect song it's chosen for her. When childhood friend Lito finally arrives, they reminisce and swap stories of the partners who left them widowed and spend an awkward yet companionable afternoon and night together. Her wait over, Faye can move on.

There's not much to this, but there's also so much here. Quiet, lovely, hopeful and sad. And -- though I enjoyed the cowboy family -- their quirkiness was a bit out of place: like they'd wandered in from a Wes Anderson movie.

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