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Antonio Campos (screenplay)
Release Date:
2 October 2009 (USA) more
Plot:
A Internet-addicted prep-school student captures the drug overdose of two girls. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
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(59 articles)
Extracurriculars
(From Interview Magazine. 28 October 2009, 5:50 AM, PDT)
Goldwyn has Faith in 'Life'
(From ioncinema. 28 October 2009)
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Couldn't finish it (honest, I tried) more (5 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Danielle Baum | ... | Fighting Girl |
 | Byrdie Bell | ... | Cherry Dee |
| Emory Cohen | ... | Trevor |
| Rosemarie DeWitt | ... | Teacher |
 | Harrison Lees | ||
| Paul Lucenti | ... | Student |
| Anna Maliere | ... | Fighting Girl |
| Christopher McCann | ... | Mr. Ullman |
 | Ezra Miller | ... | Robert |
 | Alexandra Neil | ||
| Paul Sparks | ... | Detective |
 | Michael Stuhlbarg | ... | Mr. Burke |
 | Addison Timlin | ... | Amy |
 | Daniel Trinh | ... | Student |
 | Dariusz M. Uczkowski | ... | Peter |
| Jeremy Allen White | ... | Dave |
 | Lee Wilkof | ... | Mr. Wiseman |
 | Gary Wilmes |
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107 min | USA:122 min (Cannes Film Festival) | USA:120 min | Argentina:122 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
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OK. I've tried to finish this exercise in audience alienation twice. First I stopped after half an hour of watching admittedly realistic, if over-familiar and desultory, dialog, and trying to stay interested in people I only half-saw, or saw from a distance, or from the back of their heads, all going through what looked very much like what innumerable prep school students go through regularly. Having decided there really wasn't a point to this, I came here and discovered... there is a Major Dramatic Event in the movie! Somewhere. So I put in the DVD again and watched for about ten minutes past said Major Dramatic Event. Only to find more perfectly believable, probably emotionally rich, scenes shown at a numbing distance and presented at a tortuously slow pace. Yes, this film is like "Elephant" - and a number of other punishingly self-indulgent Gus Van Sant films. Not to mention various low-budget French films I saw in Paris in the Eighties (I mainly remember long shots of people walking down hallways, the echo of their footsteps the only soundtrack). This is, in other words, a parody of many people's worst fantasy of an independent film. It's not exaggerated to say I got to the point where I was actually resenting the film's abuse of my (not overly available) time. As for being "innovative".... if you loved "Last Year at Mariendbad" (1961), this kind of film-making will be right up your alley.