Stylized to the point of poetry, David Gordon Green's impressive debut fuses the lyricism of Terence Malick with Harmony Korine's willingness to poke around the garbage-strewn landscape of the American underclass. When it works, the effect is a
little like Faulkner; when it fails it's a maddening exercise in willful obscurity. The film is set in an impoverished, rusted-out Southern town, and opens with a small heartbreak: 12-year-old Nasia (Candace Evanofski) tells her 13-year-old boyfriend Buddy (Curtin Cotton III) that it's all over.
She's more interested in their friend George Richardson (Donald Holden), a soft-spoken orphan who wears a football helmet because t...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins