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Director: Alison Murray
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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
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- JE Wood said...
- Posted on May 13 2008 13:34 Far from being "too naive, humourless and psychologically shallow to convince", I found this film moved me greatly; to tears, laughter, and (the first time I've ever done this in a public cinema) to cheers and applause at one point. If only there were more films like this - showing genuine emotions - where the ambiguities of life are dealt with, where the characters - even though they undergo universal struggles - live through them and grow in confidence. Yes! I applaud this film. I want to know how it ended up showing only ONCE per day, in ONE London cinema only - CATCH IT WHILST U CAN!
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- Anne Beresford said...
- Posted on May 09 2008 11:08 Hi - the director is Alison MURRAY not theatre designer Alison CHITTY!!
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Cast & crew
Director: Alison Murray
Cast: Ellen Page, Natasha Wightman, Eric Thal full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 101 mins
UK Release: May 9 2008
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