Can a Handsome and famous celebrity fall in love with an ordinary girl?
The Girl in the Orange Dress is a character driven rom-com about an ordinary girl that fall in love with a highly controversial celebrity. Anna (Jessy Mendiola) wakes up after a wild party in the bed of a Superstar and girl magnet named Rye (Jericho Rosales), but has no recollection as to how she got there. Her world turns upside down as she became talk of the town and needs to hide with the paparazzi and Rye’s avid fans including her own bestfriend Kakai (Ria Atayde).
As rom-com genre requires, the chemistry of Jericho and Jessy is out of the park whose credit undeniably goes to their stellar performances. Nakakakilig sila Echo at Jessy! It never goes cheesy or sketchy or unnecessarily poignant to manipulate and draw out emotions through it. Abello, the writer had few windows to manipulate the viewers with the help of his characters but instead keeps the priority of storytelling up front.
Addition to that, despite of ticking for around two hours, the feature is immensely busy with characters and their sub-plots which is completely competent to the core. The slick humor that is imputed with such nuance that it never feels forced and the tale flows fluently in front of us.
Kudos to Jay Abello! The writing is sharp, adaptive and gripping with a humane touch that helps keep its pragmatic characters more grounded. The music plays a major role in here that elevates the momentum and doesn't stretch its way too. I love Moira’s voice! A decent background score, fine editing, casual costume designing but is unfortunately short on cinematography.
It is shot beautifully with light environment that is appealing to the viewers from the first frame and is maintained with flirty talks and actually stardom. As mentioned earlier, the performance objective is safe and sound with Rosales’ sensible and hilarious performance and Mendiola’s emotionally challenged one that is supported amazingly by Ria and Sheena.
The director’s execution might vary and fluctuate but the script picks it up every time it falls down. Few hilarious lines, complex characters and stellar performances are the high points of the feature.
This is one of the best entries on this year’s film festival. Hindi ako nainip!
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