Like Its Heroine, a Movie Encounters Savage Treatment
di Julie Bloom The New York Times
IT was known as the “Dakota Fanning rape movie” at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. The press screening for “Hounddog” elicited actual boos, not to mention eviscerating reviews. Even before that, evangelical groups protested the film after someone involved in its early financing alleged publicly (and erroneously) that Ms. Fanning was naked in it.
Few movies recover from such a hostile reception, especially a low-budget Southern-gothic tale set in 1959 about a 12-year-old motherless girl obsessed with Elvis Presley who seductively sings for a teenager in exchange for tickets to a concert of the King's. [...]
di Julie Bloom, articolo completo (6049 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 14 settembre 2008
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