The script as well as Zoe Kazan's lead performance are beautifully focused in a tale of young emotions.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
Sometimes a carefully placed pinprick can stay with you longer than a heavier, clumsier blow, and so it is with Bradley Rust Gray's delicately done but indelible "The Exploding Girl."
This 80-minute feature is on one level the tiniest story imaginable, a look at a quiet emotional crisis a 20-year-old college student named Ivy goes through on spring break.
But writer-director Gray is so committed to his minimalist aesthetic and applies it with such craft and skill that this careful character study, so exact in its aims and execution, holds our interest almost without our noticing how it's done. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3573 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 2 aprile 2010