Weather Forecast: A damp, grey, and honest little movie

Is it worth your time?

Honestly, it depends on your tolerance for people staring out of windows. If you want a fast-paced thriller, stay far away. You will be bored to tears within ten minutes. But if you’re the type who likes a film that just sits with a character, you’ll probably find something to latch onto here. It’s not for everyone, and that’s perfectly fine.

Evelyn Cherry is great, but she’s given a lot of scenes where she just has to exist in a room. There’s this one sequence where she’s folding laundry for what feels like an eternity. I checked my phone twice. Yet, there’s a weird honesty to how she handles the socks. It doesn’t feel like acting; it feels like she’s just tired of the chores.

Cinematic perspective: Exploring the visual vocabulary of Weather Forecast (1934) through its definitive frames.

The cinematography is… well, it’s grey. A lot of grey. It reminds me a bit of the mood in Dernier amour, where the environment is doing just as much work as the dialogue. Sometimes it works, and sometimes the screen is just so dark I had to squint to make sure I wasn't watching a black screen by mistake. 🌧️

Oddly specific observations

• The kitchen table has a coffee stain that moves between shots. I spent way too much time trying to track it.
• There is a radio playing in the background of the third act that sounds like it’s being recorded from inside a tin can. It’s distracting, but oddly adds to the lonely vibe.
• The way Cherry handles her keys. She has this nervous tic where she drops them constantly. It’s a small, annoying detail that made me feel bad for her.

There’s a moment halfway through where I thought the movie might actually turn into a standard mystery, maybe something like The Arm of the Law, but it just… didn't. It stayed in its own lane. It’s refreshing, I guess, but also a little frustrating when you want the plot to actually go somewhere.

Is it a masterpiece? No. Does it need to be? Probably not. It’s just a movie about a person waiting for the weather to change. Sometimes we all feel like that. Just don't go in expecting fireworks. ☕