I know what Victoria Negri‘s debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It’s about a young woman trapped in a life she never thought she’d lead — a part-time fitness club employee who’s lost the nerve to follow her dreams of becoming an internationally renowned concert pianist — her existential struggle for identity, reconciling desire with a rebelliously nihilistic streak, and coping with the unavoidable reality her birth provided. When your father is older than your mother’s parents, dealing with his depleting health and death is inevitable. Facing his mortality will either jumpstart her ambition to stop squandering obvious potential or expose perseverance’s futility in a world driven by tragic uncertainties and fate’s unyielding calculations.
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
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- 10/9/2016
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