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Culture Wars Waged in Suburban Bedrooms

It is hardly news that teenage sexuality is a subject that drives many people crazy. But how crazy? In “Towelhead,” a provocative satire of a culture that is paradoxically hypersexual and puritanical, it makes everyone bonkers. The men tend to be glowering beasts unable to keep their hands to themselves, and the female characters are either angry, judgmental watchdogs or witchy Lolitas not fully aware of their Circean powers.
The movie, faithfully adapted from Alicia Erian's novel, is the first film directed by Alan Ball, the creator of “Six Feet Under” (and of the new vampire series “True Blood”), and screenwriter of “American Beauty. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (5551 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 Settembre 2008