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A Love Song Movie Review

A Love Song is a 2022 independent drama film directed by Max Walker-Silverman and starring Dale Dickey and Wes Studi. It’s a very uneventful, but charming movie.

Faye is a lone traveler who bides her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito, a figure from her past who’s navigating his own tentative and nomadic journey across the rugged West. This movie is basically the answer to ‘Nomadland’ and it’s better than that overrated picture, but not by much.

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My main issue with the film is not only its slight story, but also very poor characterization. The story is actually not all that bad having in mind that it deals with a very important subject, which is loneliness at an old age. It showcases that we all need company, especially when we are older, and through revisiting an older flame, the movie states that as years go by we become more desperate and more willing to meet people regardless of who they are, which was all quite honest.

But we never came to care for these two characters as they were only slightly developed and thus unremarkable. The other supporting characters fared even worse and I saw no point in them with the black lesbian couple being particularly unimportant to the overall story.

Thankfully, the actors elevate their very weak roles as Wes Studi is very strong in an understated role. Dale Dickey steals the show in one of the better performances of the year as she’s perfectly cast and so good. Their scenes together were all wonderful and I wished that we got more of them.

A Love Song features strong cinematography and a great score. It moves at a solid pace and its short runtime helped it significantly as it otherwise could have been tedious. I just wish that we got more of those emotional sequences and the slice-of-life moments were just solid without ever being truly memorable.

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