Joy is a popular college-age girl with a handsome boyfriend, loving parents, and many friends and band-mates. Helen’s the same age but an awkward, unsmiling outcast who’s grown up in an orphanage. Joy vanishes in a park one day, presumably the victim of foul play, and Helen is chosen to play Joy in a video reenactment the police are making in hopes of solving the case. Joy’s fate is replaced by the reality of Helen’s life and that is the premise of the new Irish film Helen, an interesting variation on the idea of duality that is hampered by a deliberately slow pace, wooden performances, and vague storytelling.
Helen (Annie Townsend) finds Joy’s life much more interesting than her own and takes to wearing Joy’s yellow coat, flirting with her boyfriend (Danny Groenland) and even accepting help with her studies from Joy’s parents...
Helen (Annie Townsend) finds Joy’s life much more interesting than her own and takes to wearing Joy’s yellow coat, flirting with her boyfriend (Danny Groenland) and even accepting help with her studies from Joy’s parents...
- 11/15/2009
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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