Breakup Season 2024

Breakup-Season-2024
Breakup Season 2024

We all know how difficult it can be to end a relationship, and how painful it is to endure a breakup in any context. Breakup Season, the new indie film by writer/Director H. Nelson Tracey, explores deep within this subject deeply to ascertain if there ever truly exists a good time to say goodbye. 

In all earnest, The Breakup Season does seem to be a heartfelt and gentle film that goes on to showcase the essence of love and the sorrow that comes afterward. The film stars Ben (Chandler Riggs from The Walking Dead) and Cassie (Samantha Isler from Captain Fantastic) who are travelling to Oregon for the Christmas holidays to spend time with Ben’s family. Recently, the film’s world premiere took place in St. George, Utah at the Desertscape International Film Festival. 

Right from the start, it feels like the couple is having a splendid time, but after the intro ends, one notices that Ben is on a different page when it comes to his apparent connection with Cassie. Several misdirections and misunderstandings on the surfaces of the relationship as well as those which were implied result in Cassie making an ultimatum.  Cassie comes to the conclusion that she should cease their experiences in that engagement as it is no longer beneficial to them and claims she will be leaving for back home.

And it seems that everything might have gone well for Cassie waiting for the day she has to break up with her boyfriend. She envisioned being away from him and his relatives, but clearly, the climate was different. The combination of a blizzard and blocked roads makes it impossible for her to escape and she ends up spending the remaining days of the Christmas holiday at her ex-boyfriend’s house with the entire family on her side. 

With each day that passes in the week, Ben is trying to fix the differences that are present between the two, to thaw the ice, but all this is in vain as Cassie becomes more and more unyielding. It’s a back-and-forth narrative polished well enough for tact and sharpness not to allow, Ben or, Cassie to seem like the curtain raisers, simply an unbiased coin of which a relationship has unfortunately been fractured into two pieces.

After all, Tracy approaches the suffering of Ben and Cassie in a more nuanced way by contrasting their experiences during the week with the general state of the surrounding relationship. In this manner, Breakup Season cannot be termed solely as a story about Ben and Cassie. 

Also, there’s the holiday special guest – Mia Brooks playing Ben’s Mam, and James Urbaniak, from the venture bros and Oppenheim, playing Ben’s Father who have been placed in a cooler healthy relationship making Cassy and Ben uncomfortable as there is a rift. Hogan and Urbaniak strike lovely and gentle notes in the scene when they are feeling tenderness towards their son and are eager to hear Cassy. While looking at each other, or at themselves, as Cassie and Ben do, people realize that in their relationship some things are like this and some things are not like this.

Right after Gordon (Jacob Wysocki) his elder brother went through a divorce and came back home and Liz(Carly Stewart) feels distant from her partner, it’s pretty clear that Ben’s family has love issues. Ben and Cassie shift between feelings of wanting things to be repaired by Ben and feeling the urge to push them further by Cassie. This experimentation can be seen throughout the week coupled with their bold optimism and outright pessimism toward love.  

Up until the very end, everyone is seen doing a fantastic job and Ben’s ensemble cast shines through. While Riggs shows a depressing Ben quite well, Isler surpasses expectations as Cassie. But the true standout is Urbaniak, an awkward but sweet father whose humorous approach is coupled with a determination to find the most efficient way to help his children manage their feelings of grief and love.

Many of the notable moments of the film can be attributed to Urbaniak’s rapport with the children on screen. For example, there’s a scene where he has to talk to Gordon in the dark. Both find Urbaniak with his great sense of humor, even whilst gently correcting the ‘dad’ figure. 

For instance: Alas, such aspects: as writing, which to a certain extent can be categorized as internal and narrative as opposed to the stylistic traits of the film, are most notable. There are no dullness in the scripts and stories, a chronic disease of this subgenre; Tracey’s tales too make such characters’ in-fight possible. As a consequence of these internal and interpersonal battles over the places they occupy in the world, powerful, tangible, emotional sequences sound as when characters utilize their diversity to resolve issues and come together. 

The script does a good job of making the character feel like a commodity.

To say that Every character is super believable is an understatement because the best part is Tracey gives such mighty final touches to his characters, which is not only cameo-ish but also adds a whole new charm. The way he narrates and balances the vide does evoke a certain sense of vulnerability. 

When the film is at its climax, Tracey is forced, more than once, in his final performance, to make a dummy left-footed movement. It then proceeds in a seamless function to those very sad final events and spice up the happy endings that the best romantic comedies and drama directors would have loved most in the past, thus regrettably this one is set to join the ranks together with the classic 500 Days of summer. 

Now then, I do not have the words to describe Breakup Season, besides saying it felt a bit like daydreaming, and so it is difficult to prevent oneself from posing a question as to what other future films of Tracy might be like. In my case, this reviewer knows what is next and is ready to see it because just if it’s even half as good as this, then this is going to be good times ahead.

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