Warning!!! Pedophile Released

A vivid tale of innocence lost

Behind the lurid-sounding title, "Warning!!! Pedophile Released," lies an ambitious and powerful experimental film written by its stars Kai Lanette and Shane Ryan, and directed, photographed and edited by Ryan. It is a strikingly visual, deliberately fragmented work of evocative imagery counterpointed by a remarkably effective use of richly varied music. Except for an occasional flashback, the film is devoid of conventional exposition as it tracks the blighted lives of a 12-year-old girl, Echo, and 18-year-old Malachi, who had formed a tender bond that has landed him in prison for six years for sexual molestation despite both insisting that it never happened. [...]

di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (1510 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 ottobre 2009