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Many people fled New York City at the onset of the pandemic, and, in this film, June (Holmes) is one of them. Her exodus is a worsening series of things gone wrong: all the trains upstate are cancelled, her boyfriend (Derek Luke) has decided to stay the city with his family, and when she finally arrives at her Airbnb, there\u2019s another guest, Charlie (Jim Sturgess) there. Since she has nowhere else to go, and no way to get there anyway, she spends the night, and what begins as a standoffish dynamic with Charlie slowly blossoms into a close relationship that should be easily identifiable by anyone who spent time with someone else they didn\u2019t know all that well in quarantine.<\/p>\n
The premise of Alone Together<\/i><\/b> is simple enough, and it\u2019s far enough removed from the early phases of the pandemic where people didn\u2019t know much, hand sanitizer was impossible to find, and masks were not yet a thing to not feel like a horror movie that\u2019s just too real. But its setup is also clumsy, beginning with the odd choice to show June waiting at a subway station where train lines travel all the way upstate, a red flag for any New Yorker watching since they definitely do not. Part of the awkwardness that ensues between June and Charlie is because this house in the county has only one bathroom and one bedroom, which feels unlikely given its location and overall size.<\/p>\n
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But there is still heart to be found, and this film does manage to mimic pandemic times in June\u2019s phone calls to all the restaurants in a book of menus at the house, where she gets voicemail box after voicemail box stating that they are all closed indefinitely.<\/p>\n
They both still have full use of their devices, but the world feels a whole lot smaller when they can\u2019t actually go and spend time in person with those they care about most, like June\u2019s grandfather and Charlie\u2019s mother. Being drawn to each other is almost inevitable, and even if they couldn\u2019t be more different when they first meet, the film\u2019s title gives away that romance is obviously in the cards.<\/p>\n
This is not Holmes\u2019 first outing as a director, with one feature film, 2016\u2019s All We Had, in her credits. She also co-wrote a pandemic-set short film, Almost a Year. Her filmmaking touch here is sensitive but not subtle, broadly creating a framework in which these two characters can come to see the value in each other.<\/p>\n