After a pair of great documentaries about the creative process (THIS SO-CALLED DISASTER, WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD), Michael Almereyda returns to fiction filmmaking with a philosophically ambitious, sci-fi-tinged fable. Sixteen-year-old Amelia (Liane Balaban) comes to New Orleans looking for her sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), who appears to have fallen off the face of the earth. Their flaky aunt, Lois (Ally Sheedy), assures her that Muriel was always a spiritual seeker, and has probably just wandered down to Mexico. But after speaking to Muriel's roommates (Isabel Gillies, Nic Ratner), who tell her Muriel had been avoiding human contact and spent most of h...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins