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Bookmark this pageThe Dish and the Spoon (2011)
Director: Alison Bagnall
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From Time Out Online
It’s quirk factor 10 as mistress of mumblecore Greta Gerwig returns to the low-budget indie fare that made her name. ‘The Dish and the Spoon’ isn’t quite mumblecore – it’s too professionally produced and narratively slick for that – but it nonetheless allows Gerwig to shake off her Hollywood trappings and get back to basics. The story is simple: devastated, cuckolded wife Rose (Gerwig) picks up a stray British teen (Olly Alexander) and the two spend time wandering around a boarded-up Delaware seaside town. The two lead performances are strong, and there are moments of keen emotional insight – the climactic country-dance scene is almost unbearably tense – but these are undercut by an overriding sense of indie-movie wackiness and overemphatic oddball characterisation.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
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- rachel said...
- Posted on Oct 21 2011 13:51 i think you should go and see this film.
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- james said...
- Posted on Oct 21 2011 13:48 This is such a beautiful film with incredible performances from greta gerwig and olly alexander
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- Jo said...
- Posted on Oct 20 2011 20:00 A few memorable quirky scenes strung together with a flat as a pancake narrative, amateurishly directed with some appalling performances. Could have been so much better.
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Cast & crew
Director: Alison Bagnall
Cast: Greta Gerwig, Alexander Scourby, Eleonore Hendricks, Amy Seimetz, Adam Rothenberg
Genre(s): Romance
Duration: 90 mins
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