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Tuesday 18 February 2014

GEORGE WASHINGTON [2000]

 
David Gordon Green's debut George Washington is such a wonderful and thoughtful film it makes you wonder if it's even the same guy who shat out Your Highness and The Sitter.  It's the type of film that stands beside Kids, Brick and Mean Creek as it paints a visually and emotionally unsettling atmosphere that grounds itself in such a strange and stark reality you can't turn away from.
It's filled to the brim with moments of such subtly it might require multiple viewings before you truly understand the masterful storytelling and complicated characters that you're introduced to here.

4 smelly mutts out of 5

3 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

It’s by no means guaranteed but there’s a good chance that if it’s on the Criterion label, then it’s damn good.

cuckoo said...

It is is pretty damned good.

Seen it three times now it only got better.
DGG's recent choice in films baffle me completely.
He started out as a wonderful indie-filmmaker then...
...money talked. :(

Hopefully his new one (Joe) is a return to fine form.

cuckoo said...

...but yes...

The Rock and Armageddon are on Criterion.

I don't recall The Rock all that much....but I do recall Armageddon being a stupidly enjoyable guilty pleasure that pulls out all the cornball moments it possibly can.