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Mouth to Mouth (2006)
Director: Alison Murray
Movie review
From Time Out London
Made before ‘Juno’, just following ‘Hard Candy’ in 2005, this sees Ellen Page (right) in another rebellious teenager role, as spiky Goth Sherry in fellow Canadian-born director Alison Murray’s uneven debut. A meandering road trip of a movie, loosely based on Murray’s own experiences as a 15-year-old, it journeys from the addict-filled streets of Berlin to the raves of Spain as Sherry joins a VW van-load of travelling cultish communards, whose (bare-torsoed) leaders’ anti-drug and rehabilitative rhetoric belies the reality of their sexual predation and power-freak obsessiveness. Despite its lively hand-held camerawork and aura of sleazy realism, it’s too fundamentally naive, humourless and psychologically shallow to convince.Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1968, May 8-14, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Alison Murray
Cast: Ellen Page, Natasha Wightman, Eric Thal full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 101 mins
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