Lost, Lonely Souls Adrift, Randomly Crossing Paths
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
If you’ve ever studied the patrons in a seedy Los Angeles burger joint and felt a queasy sense of vertigo, it is the same sinking, slightly panicky sensation I had while watching Jason Freeland’s film “Garden Party.”
Most of the characters in this low-rent answer to Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts” are young loners adrift in the torpid, sleazy no man’s land conjured by the words Sunset Strip. They are either running away from something, like April (Willa Holland), a pretty 15-year-old who flees home after noticing her stepfather ogling her in the shower, or show-business hopefuls like Nathan (Alex Cendese), a Nebraska farm boy of uncertain sexuality who hopes to be a dancer. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (2792 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 11 Luglio 2008