“Who Loves the Sun” is a cheerless movie of broken relationships and broken hearts. Will, Maggie, and Daniel were best friends. Will and Maggie marry. Will finds Daniel and Maggie in bed. Will disappears for five years. What follows is a reunion of sorts that breaks and rebinds the friends. Do the wounds heal over? Not quite sure.
The trio ends up at the lake cabin with the Blooms, the hosting mature couple providing stability. The boys meet and fight. The girl interposes herself between the feuding duo and tries to restore the past friendship.
While married to Will (Lucas Haas), Maggie (Molly Parker) has an affair with Daniel (Adam Scott). She then takes the high road playing victim to Will’s anger and frustration. Daniel has a matter ’o fact take on things and doesn’t understand the big deal. Will is hurt and disillusioned and strikes out at both. When Maggie reads a script Will had written and dedicated to her she succumbs to her memories and warms up to her Ex. Ultimately, needing her own world, Maggie leaves Will and Daniel to rekindle their friendship, to get over the mistake of the affair and to go forward.
The acting is fine and the engagement between the three leads is nice. The cinematography is wonderful, hard to miss with such breathtaking lake views. The film bogs and moves too slowly, almost mechanically, and yet feels a bit loose. Hard to explain. While the setting is wonderful, not so the plot. The film takes much too long to resolve the love triangle problem. The audience is ahead of the script with nothing to hold on to. We get the triangle, no sweat. What else can we chew on lest the mind wander. “Who Loves the Sun” is not an action film but certainly the tempo could have been amped up, even a tad, without damaging the final presentation.
Go and enjoy the acting and the scenery of “Who Loves the Sun”. Especially the scenery.