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Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 08-21-2005, 01:35 PM:

Refreshing look at returning home, this little indie flick breaks down a lot of stereotypes. Chicago art dealer seems right at home and at ease when coming to new husband's hometown in the rural south. He's the one who seems uncomfortable by it all, having left it all behind. The film avoids showing the characters as either objects of riducule or as folksy full-of-wisdom types. Beautifuuly shot on Super 16.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-21-2005, 05:00 PM:

WARNING: Plot spoiler follows

Agreed. Saw it in Santa Barbara during my West Coast trip last week. I was leaning toward Red Eye myself, but the friend I was with is a PhD student in film studies at UCSB, and she wasn't inclined to let me get away with Hollywood brain anaesthesia!

I thought it was very clever in that the film managed to make jokes about the rural/urban cultural divide (e.g. the artist playing games with the posh art gallery madam which she just didn't get) without being disrespectful to any of the characters.

I feared that the baby was a gonner from around half way through reel 2, though: being into slimming while 8 months pregnant is not exactly compatible with a happy ending.

Was I just imagining things or was there a vertical negative scratch (white tramline) right the way through the whole film, just right of the centre of the screen? It wasn't just on one reel, meaning that the scratch must have been on the 16mm element used for enlargement - if it was on the 35mm interneg used to strike the print I saw, then surely only one reel would have been scratched?

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-21-2005, 07:05 PM:

quote: Leo Enticknap
Agreed. Saw it in Santa Barbara during my West Coast trip last week. I was leaning toward Red Eye myself, but the friend I was with is a PhD student in film studies at UCSB, and she wasn't inclined to let me get away with Hollywood brain anaesthesia!

But you would have seen Red Eye at the Arlington, which is beautiful enough inside to ignore the movie.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-22-2005, 04:19 AM:

We checked it out, but it wasn't showing any films that week. The entrance courtyard looked amazing, but that was as far as we got. The Fiesta, where we eventually ended up, had Red Eye as well - an OK but unspectacular 4- or 5-plex.