The format was past-present cinematography, in the sense that they began with the present, and went back and forth with small scenes from the "past" in order to let the viewer know what is going on and to move the plot forward. The "present" is a team of archaeologists are taken to a hospital and the main girl, Anna, will not wake up. You learn that this is due to a cave in. She is the leader of the team and is all about her work and, since the recent death of her mother, is very distant from others. The basic progression of the story is that she is working with a man, Peter, who she does not trust or care for but then falls in love with him. She is hesitant to let her feelings run free because she has been hurt before and is distraught by her mother's death still. In the end she chooses to let herself love him. He is unsure of how he feels until the end, and goes out with another team member in the middle of the film, continuing with Anna's being upset.
The movie could have done with background music, I could tell that it was not "big budget" because of that, it would have also helped the story not drag. I do not specifically know why it is called "The Day of the Frog" as frogs are seldom seen, only interacting in like one or two short scenes and they don't help the plot at all. The fragmentation of the story was also somewhat confusing, or at least could have been much more clear and straight forward. As far as comparison to American cinema I do not feel that it was very different. There were not idioms that I did not understand and there were not a whole lot of different places and things that seemed out of the ordinary ( apart from the frogs).I appreciated it and loved seeing the film at the festival though!
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