ALL THE REAL GIRLS [2003]

Director/co-writer David Gordon Green introduces this generation to one of the first mumblecore films with the romantic All The Real Girls.
It's a quiet, dreamy heartfelt drama that perfects those familiar moments of nervous love, both happy and hurt, with poetic perfection.  Beautifully shot, well-acted and each cast member suits their role with comfort and believability.  It slow-burns it's way through the moments but it's so well done there are 15 second scenes with a single line of dialogue that speaks so much more than some films with scenes that drag on for 5 minutes.
An amazing second feature from DGG that feels like lingers like it was part of your own life.

4 clowny clown clowns out of 5

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