‘The Adored’ is a drama about an intense love triangle. Largely the story revolves around Franky (Laura Martin-Simpson), A photographer who has been hired to do a homely and intimate shoot with Maia (Ione Butler), A beautiful and rather reserved model. During the course of the shoot we learn more about the back-stories of each character as Franky tries to get Maia to relax and open up. As the story unfolds at the cosy cottage they are photographing in, it begins to intercut with a man, Adrian (Jake Maskall), in therapy about a violent incident involving his wife, Maia. As the weekend moves on Franky struggles to keep her growing lust and obsession with Maia in check but as Maia opens up about her troubled marriage the pair grow closer. The story builds steadily to a violent crescendo where the three finally come face to face on a clifftop.
This movie is your average straight to DVD drama, the pacing and story are good and the cast manages to give performances that are at least watchable and save the lacking script and bad direction. The main problem that becomes apparent is that none of the characters are likeable, Franky is bat-shit crazy, Maia is needy and dull and Adrian just seems to have two emotion states, Violent and Vacant. All in all I just didn’t really care what happened to any of them and when the credits rolled I got on with my own little life.
4/10
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