Winter Spring Summer or Fall
Winter Spring Summer or Fall
Having a story with a couple of love-struck children and a title like Winter Spring Summer or Fall, I suppose if Gover says such things it will be in regard to Tiffany Paulsen’s feature series comparisons with Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and its sequels.
Still it is very unlikely that such a canonical stature will be achieved, but this film begins to encroach on sufficiently distinct territory – made possible by the stars of Wednesday Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White. Their believable chemistry and realistic portrayals help bolster the lightweight narrative that the film’s quirkiness would otherwise find hard to hold.
Making its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, Winter Spring Summer or Fall seeks to provide its mostly Gen Z audience a romantic drama wherethou will literally root for the protagonists, that has been available for every other generation but theirs/A Walk to Remember – where two young warring factions unite or a music based teenagers’ couple in Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist; or, again and lastly, the “safe” and “homemade” Before movies but more visually and emotionally engaging.
The film revolves around the love story of two New Jersey teenagers, Remi (Ortega) and Barnes (White), over a period of four seasons. Winter is when the protagonists first meet each other: it is during a train trip to a strange New York City, which is complete with an astonishingly effective subway, swank new seating on the train and with an express stop at 92nd street.
It is Remi who gets approached by Barnes and the two exchange playful insults for the better part of an afternoon. A minor bike accident lands Remi in the emergency room, where she forces Barnes to divorce her after accepting a date with him. She does not understand why there should be a future with someone “like him”.
What that means exactly is shaky. Barnes is more a sketch than fully painted. He also got our acquaintance as a teenage punk and an elusive teen obsessed with music and carefree of any purpose and time. Why college, when asked by Remi, elicits a nonchalant shrug. It is all good — even engaging – until their romance begins in full force.
A winter denial of prom leads to the other end of spring prom escapade at dusk. More things about Barnes are introduced floating details about where he grew up, the fact that his mother is a military nurse, and the absence of his father.
Yet he still remains vague, especially with regard to the significance of his background in the development of the plot of the film.
When one begins to pry into his mother’s relationship with him, the indefatigable search for Remi and so many more. Certain residual dissatisfaction can be ascribed to White’s performances. Here, as in the 2024 Sundance charmer My Old Ass, he doesn’t just play the decorative boyfriend. We see some tenderness, some detail in the relationship when Barnes and Remi begin their summer romances, yet it is short lived.
Remi is, to use quite a few stereotypes — the dreamer, smart and fierce Gordon’s teenage daughter drowning in the sort of highocy Dlist level teens often do — and yet, her reasons were simpler, why worry about this relationship in terms of your future and yourself. Ortega gives Remi some edge, finding ways to surprise us.
Ortega and White’s charming possessive turns make you want more from Remi and Barnes’ love story as the times change. This suture scene, which was written by Dan Schoffer, recreates their love in elegantly paced scenes. The leisurely tone, for the most part, captures the simplicity of the union of the two during the span of a year.
But at some point, however, easy does it methods reaches somewhere beyond, rather pointless, section in the film. Further conversations between them – for example regarding their daily activities or liked activities – would, however, have made the film more focused and less hurried.
Indeed, some of the meandering does pay off with some very memorable outcomes. Paulsen who writes romantic tales(those would be comedies) Like About Fate and Holidate, knows how to make you cringe in a good way with his close-ups of the longing looks and delicate movements such as a man’s hand lifting another man’s chin or fingers going gently over the shoulder of Remi and Barnes to capture their feelings.
And music, of course, helps the action (in that Paulsen worked with Death Cab for Cutie’s Zac Rae and Michael Turner) which follows the sentiment of the union of the couples. In conclusion, these factors interdependently and perfectly articulate the strong unrealistic sense of young love and the resulting bright obsession.
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- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Country: United States
- Director: Tiffany Paulsen
- Cast: Jenna Ortega, Percy Hynes White, Adam Rodriguez
