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ALL fiié REAL'GIRLS (15)107min O...
Show me heaven and then show me the entries in your diary that detail the breakdown of your first romance. David Gordon Green's elegiac, Chevy engine oil-smeared follow up to his remarkable 2000 debut. George Washington, cuts like a pen knife through a Schlitz can, without seeming to lift a mucky paw.
Set in a shit horse town in some corner of North Carolina. All the Real Girls tells the deceptively simple love story of Paul (Paul Schneider) and Noel (Zooey Deschanel). Paul is a bum who likes to tinker in the iron-choked junk yards with his moronic mates. He also has a bit of a reputation as the town lothario. Then he falls in love with his best friend‘s sister, Noel. She is taken by his brooding ways but her future lies in college and a life away from the tight-knit community she has grown up in. Their romance winds its inevitable way from doe eyed infatuation to heartbreak.
In trying to answer the same questions that Kevin Williamson must have asked himself when he was writing the first episode of Dawson ’5 Creek, Green has pulled off something of a small miracle. How do you document the lumpen.
proselytising and destructive nature of young Reflections in a small town mirror love. when youth, by its very nature, renders your subjects uncommunicative. dumb or simply the result of which creates a curiously affecting, considered photography). In fairness, this young lacking any real cognitive skills of evaluation? autistic, frighteningly, organic satisfying whole. auteur’s work consciously or unconsciously Williamson came up with a different answer, Greene‘s movie will not, however. be to heralds from a line of pastoral deviation that has Green goes his own way. In the tradition of the everyone‘s taste. It is painfully slow while been weaned on the milk of brilliance: Fellini‘s I great modern writers of what you might call the refusing to play the shock cards so beloved by Viftelloni. Ettore Scola‘s Splendour, Hal Hartley‘s American provinces (noticeably Harry Crews, T this filmmaker‘s most comparable US Henry Fool. even Tim Hunter‘s River’s Edge. to Coraghessan Boyle and John Kennedy Toole), contemporaries; Larry Clark (Kids) and Harmony name a few. It is a disparate bloodline whose Green finds redemption from fusing the arcane Korine (Julien Donkey Boy). ancestors have long been looking for a leader. If and the redneck. Like George Washington, this Green‘s work is almost unique in the US he carries on producing work of this quality, they film lacks a centre. Each scene is a wisp, a independent field. Many have compared it to that may have just found one in David Gordon Green. moment from mundane lives that is torn and of Terrence Malick, and there is some truth in this (Paul Dale) twisted by an excess of mannered improvisation. (though mainly a result of Tim Orr's gorgeous. I {if (3..“ x w :' r ' .' x " " ‘V ' . .- VERONICA GUERIN 1F," ' HISTORIAS MINIMAS (18) 98min 0.. WW." ‘ ’ ‘*‘~’7"- ""9’3‘ (15) 92min 0... "l." "f L.(;t' ."'_‘ I ' ' 1i» . um. i! ; r ' ‘ ‘Evuk' '1'“: ~. . . 1 . fS’i' l""‘ff" m f" ' " . z . v :' ;i.' mm» .. v " " w . ' ' T“ ' ~\ (1 ' ' ‘ 2' ' ' ' ' ' ' r ' I'x'. wt' ' " ' :‘. fl‘tli‘r'e?i'3f~"'.l..'!r :‘T'V‘hti"? .1' 1%" 2 2" ;‘ I-"‘ ,:."'. "I 1') I 1" ' 2 m.i.r.1;:'t~:3;w (it"". '. 1. : :". '52: 2:. : .' ()iS'i-J i' . ‘L. .. l . ' ' ' : . . i ' . K1'.’ ‘x. I 1 ' ' . . . ‘ [aw w <. . .2 ' , v ' ~ . ~ . - w . '3' 5, [Jun '( " 1N ' . 1'., L.-. (I, ,. ,_.;;, 1. w . i ' /” Enscoaiuw .. . . . , , . , JRFQTHF Rim“ :51 _’ .i f- . . . :- .1 . ' z . w ,.. :. ' ABlanchett overthe truth saints-"3:. 1' : it :»-'°, ' :4" .:' ,."-': at ‘~‘ :. timi‘ " »‘ x t ’3' '\' I [)2 l A l '.' ' ‘ l l ‘ .: i’ .J. 1‘. . ' l! ' : z ' . ~ ‘ ~: ‘ ' Ma". \x 1' :' . ' 1 . . ~ : . I1 :1" Can i o 1' ' ' x ‘ h ‘3‘ """" ‘1 '-: ' ml ' ' nu- :' 1': .Jo.i"\ ' . i u ' r ' Cm- iv: 1 ‘. ' " ‘ ~ . . ' ' .' :o ' : E‘Simxm-I' w l r . EPA: \' ‘li'i' itllrl': "_ ' i 1‘ \ . ' ..ar“ti :.'t’\ . ‘ ft‘ ' 7' ~ " v 2 II t ( '){1[{‘u}'vi : .v : :'>.‘:"'t'i 1 Dut‘ :' ‘1 ‘ ‘ ' ' 3’ "' " SM ' 2 " ' | i‘ .2 . ' tog-at“ a: ' : .. 1 il‘ .’ l.) ~.‘-::‘ " ' .. ‘ ' . IS:=:._.... . ‘ .~:\ 5 ' " t" :: .1150 :3‘11 A”; " ' Patagonian road tales
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