Ralph Film Review

Ralph film Review

Ralph is a Comic Love story set in Southern France in and around the Marseille train station, it follows the story of Ralph a 16 year old boy who has come to France in search of his friend Clare and to declare his love for her. The story opens with Ralph stepping off the train; he looks every part the foreigner and looks out of place as with what he is wearing. He quickly makes his way to a payphone and attempts to put in Claire’s number, but she has left a number out. Then actor does a good job of showing his frustrations at the fact he has a missing number and attempts every combination of numbers to try and piece together his friend’s number.

The cinematography is good throughout the film has a constant muted colour palette which helps with the dower nature in the beginning it also uses a lot of close ups and wide shots for when the camera. Apart from when Ralph is speaking the rest of the film is in French this helps us identify with Ralph as unless you’re able to adeptly speak French you would be just as confused as him, this confusion is helped by the actors portrayal of the character as he has a constant confused look upon his face.

The theme of the film is that of a quest, Ralph comes to France without his parents to find Claire and confess his love for her, although this is side tracked by Julia. Who is the waitress at the café he sits in when he is using the pay phone, when at first she is annoyed with him for tripping her up. By the end of the film she is attempting to help him with said quest in locating Claire for him. But once Claire arrives it is clear to see that she has changed her feelings from him altogether and by the end of the film he is forced to decide between her and Claire.

Overall it is a well shot and directed film, in my opinion in thought the story was a little lacklustre and the conclusion to it was a little dubious. I wouldn’t say it was a film for me but I can see why another person would enjoy it.