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di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
The worm turns and squirms in “Frownland,” an aptly named film made on the cheap in and around New York. An up-close, painfully intimate portrait of a hapless, manipulative schlub, a Loser with a capital L, the film offers for our horror and our empathy a creature whose very existence is a rebuke to the stultifying uniformity (the niceness, the neatness) of what now often passes for American independent cinema. Written and directed by Ronald Bronstein, making his feature-film debut, this is personal cinema at its most uncompromising and fierce. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3628 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 Marzo 2008