Keyword results: Drama
Little Miss Sunshine
With a cast of characters initially tied together only by the family unit and their own fallibility,Little Miss Sunshine is a road trip film of a different nature. A smoking mother, an overly aspirational father, a drug-addict grandfather, a suicidal uncle and amute son are in stark contrast the youngest daughter whose dreams of becoming a beauty queen are wonderfully misplaced.
The Dead Girl
Dead girls are great motivational tools. Cinema has a proud traditionof heroic men happily fetishising female corpses to justify their two hours of angst. Hitchcock’s Rebecca, De Palma’s Black Dahlia, Twin Peaks and its poor Laura Palmer… and so, so, so many more.
New American indie The Dead Girl sounds like more of the same: five interlocking short pieces beginning with a mutilated body,all muted shadows and gothic overtones.
United 93
Hollywood is clearly cashing in on terrorist-induced, media-enhanced paranoia with upcoming cockbuster World Trade Centre. Soon, we’ll be able to get our 9-Eleven fix at the multiplex the way we get our 7-Eleven slurpie at the mall.
Until then there’s a small, cynicism-free window in which to catch United 93 from British filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday).
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