"Cicada" is heartfelt and clearly autobiographical but also excruciatingly boring. Matthew Fifer and Sheldon B. Leonard are the lovers coping with the traumas of their past, both sexual and racial. They also wrote the film and Fifer co-directed it with Kieran Mulcare. I kept wanting to engage with them but they are very dull company and this feels like their home-movie, both a vanity project and a kind of exorcism as it flits back and forth through their relationship, feeling ultimately like a movie made for themselves and for their friends but if they do want anyone else to feel involved they need a much better script and maybe a couple of more polished actors to play them. I found this Dull with a Capital D.
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