Let Us Make Eve (2023)
★ — Let Us Make Eve (2023)
What the actual fuck did I just watch?
I mean that sincerely. I've sat through some baffling films on my A-Z World Movie Tour, picking a film from every country and working my way through the alphabet. Belize gave me Let Us Make Eve, and I genuinely have no idea what it was trying to be, what it was trying to say, or whether anyone involved had a script that ran longer than a napkin. I've tried to reconstruct it in my head afterwards and I still come up blank. A story requires things to happen in a sequence that means something. This did not do that.
My girlfriend and I were watching together, and at some point we started speculating about what was going on. We came up with our own theory, built a whole little narrative in our heads. We were completely wrong, which would be fine, even fun, if the actual film had eventually revealed something more interesting than what we'd invented. It did not. Our version was better. We wrote a better film than the one we were watching, while watching it, without trying.
The dialogue is genuinely rough. Not rough in a charming, low-budget, we're-all-doing-our-best kind of way. Rough in a way that suggests nobody said the lines out loud before filming them to check whether a human being might plausibly say them. The acting doesn't help. I try to be fair about this with smaller productions because resources are resources and enthusiasm counts for something, but there's a point where goodwill runs dry, and Let Us Make Eve hit that point early.
Here's the thing that really got me though: a woman floated. Just, floated. At some point in this film, a woman floated through the air for reasons that were never made clear to me. I don't know if it was meant to be supernatural, symbolic, a dream, or just something that happened in this world. No context was offered. No follow-up was given. She floated. Moving on.
Belize looks genuinely lovely, I'll give it that. The scenery is the one thing the film has going for it, and even then it feels accidental, like the landscape was just there and the camera happened to point at it occasionally. If you want a nice-looking travel advert for Belize with some baffling drama stapled to it, this is your film. Otherwise, I'd steer well clear.
I keep thinking about what it is I want from the World Movie Tour entries. Ideally something that gives me a sense of a place, its people, its stories. Something with a point of view, even if it's rough around the edges. Sugar Cane Alley did that beautifully, and it's stuck with me long after watching. Let Us Make Eve gave me a floating woman and no answers, and I suspect it'll fade from my memory entirely within a fortnight.
One star. Belize deserved better than this as its representative, and frankly, so did I.
Rating: ★ | Year: 2023 | Watched: 2025-05-28
Where to watch
Watch in the UK
Physical: Amazon UK · Zavvi
Watch in the US
Stream: ALLBLK Apple TV channel · ALLBLK Amazon channel
Physical: Amazon US
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