ANNA’S a Brit studying Eng.Lit. in LA. Jake’s an LA native, studying design and building furniture. Love builds after a delicious courtship. Her student visa is about to expire. Love curdles her judgement. She overstays by a week.
When Anna (Felicity Jones) decides that despite a good job in publishing and a quite acceptable pair of parents, London life isn’t fulfilling her, she flies back to the US.
Overstaying a US visa may not yet be a hanging offence but it feels like it when it bars you from returning to be with the love of your life.
Drake Doremus has written and staged a bitter-sweet screenplay for this gently-paced romance. Its ups and downs make interesting viewing. Letters, emails, phone calls, none delivers the comfort of a warm body in a soft bed. A registry office wedding, hoping that the wife of a citizen will escape the immigration barrier, fails. Sam (Jennifer Lawrence) in Jake’s office takes Anna’s place. A presentable young Londoner slides into Anna’s bed. Is this the end ?
Well, not exactly.
But even as the end credits prepare to roll while Anna and Jake (Anton Yelchin) are hugging under the shower in his apartment after Immigration finally relents, Doremus still leaves loose ends hanging. Personally, I’m most sorry for Sam, ditched not once but twice by her boss.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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