It starts with a rocky, dramatically undermined setup and ends with a strained baptism/rebirth metaphor. But in the middle, Bobcat Goldthwait’s sharp black comedy pokes us in the eye with a scathing sendup of our tendency to mythologize and capitalize on undeserving martyrs. Rated: R (for drug use). 99 minutes. (Read more…) Now playing at […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
‘Still Walking’
Three generations of a Japanese family gather for an annual dinner to honor an elder son who drowned while saving a child. Kore-eda Hirokazu’s plotless domestic drama is a painfully empathetic experience that laments how family members cheat themselves out of love and familial bonding by allowing superficial concerns to dominate their relationships. Not rated […]