Directed by Jorge Ameer, The Singing Forest follows Christopher (Jon Sherrin), whose wife of 22 years has recently died. Still in a deep state of grief, Christopher begins drinking heavily and becomes obsessed with the concept of past lives. Before long, he is convinced he is actually the reincarnation of a German resistance fighter who was hung by the Nazis for hiding Jews during the Holocaust. His situation becomes even more complex as his daughter's (Erin Leigh Prince) wedding approaches, and
Christopher's sense of déjà vu around her fiancé, Ben (Craig Pinkston), is enough to convince him that he and Ben were gay lovers during a past life. As Christopher becomes increasingly disturbed and goes about seducing his daughter's future husband, he begins to reveal the strange, violent path his life had taken well before his wife passed away. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Writer-director Jorge Ameer's bare-bones vanity project has one incredible premise, one that is so ridiculous and over-the-top it would have been difficult to take his film seriously even if the rest of the film's elements were top-notch (they are not).
Ameer ... is such an inept filmmaker ... that he can't make clear the whereabouts of three characters in one small apartment, much less give them dialogue that isn't absurdly melodramatic.
Suffers mightily from it's low budget. The audio is muffled, the lighting is dark and while the leads give barely adequate performances the supporting cast range from amatuerish to downright awful. The direction is all over the place, while it follows a linear plot line at the beginning the last twenty minutes are
extremely muddled.
June 19, 2011
jay nixon
Super Reviewer
I stumbled across this movie at a store and thought what the heck buy it so i did. it is an ok movie. it deals with death and reincarnation. Christopher was a guy helping the jews hide from the nazis. he fell in love with one of the jewish men and were ultimately discovered by the Nazis and killed. Come to present day,
and here he is with a daughter about to get married, but when he meets the future son-in-law, he feels it is his boyfriend from long time ago. Seems like it was a low budget movie, but still good to watch at least once, watch the shorts on the dvd extras menu.
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