angelakenney-52982
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Danielle is lost in the world without any job prospects or ideas about what she's going to do after college. Her only way of making money is through her relationship with her older lover and she spends tons of time fielding questions from her smothering parents and their friends when she attends a shiva for a family friend. What she doesn't expect to see is her lover and her ex-girlfriend in the same place at once which sends her down a spiral of anxiety for the rest of the evening.
Rachel Sennott plays Danielle with just the right amount of exhaustion, sass, and desperation. She's selfish and immature in the way most of us were at that age, but she never goes a bridge too far and takes us off her side.
While Shiva Baby is incredibly funny in parts, it's always an excellent cinematic depiction of anxiety, carefully ratcheting up the tension with every scene until we, too, feel we're in Danielle's shoes. It also doesn't overstay its welcome at under 80 minutes.
Rachel Sennott plays Danielle with just the right amount of exhaustion, sass, and desperation. She's selfish and immature in the way most of us were at that age, but she never goes a bridge too far and takes us off her side.
While Shiva Baby is incredibly funny in parts, it's always an excellent cinematic depiction of anxiety, carefully ratcheting up the tension with every scene until we, too, feel we're in Danielle's shoes. It also doesn't overstay its welcome at under 80 minutes.
Petula and Tilda, two small time drug dealers, go on the run and decide to stop off at the isolated estate of their childhood friend, Daphne. Daphne's seclusion has turned her into a dangerous psychotic who insists on playing childish games all day long and, if Petula and Tilda don't want to get caught, they'll have to play along.
More of an exercise in style and shock over substance, Braid is a daring and often confounding indie horror/thriller. Madeline Brewer steals the entire film as Daphne, finding just the right balance between terror, camp, and pathos. It's an excellent performance and Braid is worth seeing for that alone.
The cinematography is gorgeous and the filmmakers use the crumbling mansion location to great effect. Pacing never drags much either which is surprising given that the majority of the film is a chamber piece between three characters and it's mostly confined to one location. In that sense, it feels much more like some long lost regional horror relic from the 70's, using whatever it has available to tell its story.
The script could stand to be tighter and it leaves us with maybe a few too many unanswered questions, but the experience of Braid as a whole is well worth your time.
More of an exercise in style and shock over substance, Braid is a daring and often confounding indie horror/thriller. Madeline Brewer steals the entire film as Daphne, finding just the right balance between terror, camp, and pathos. It's an excellent performance and Braid is worth seeing for that alone.
The cinematography is gorgeous and the filmmakers use the crumbling mansion location to great effect. Pacing never drags much either which is surprising given that the majority of the film is a chamber piece between three characters and it's mostly confined to one location. In that sense, it feels much more like some long lost regional horror relic from the 70's, using whatever it has available to tell its story.
The script could stand to be tighter and it leaves us with maybe a few too many unanswered questions, but the experience of Braid as a whole is well worth your time.
A Nazi landlord of an apartment house rigs the space with all kinds of deadly booby traps to terrorize and kill his all-female tenants.
Crawlspace isn't much for nuance and, at 80 minutes, it doesn't have time for it either. We learn precious little about Klaus Kinski's creepy building manager or the victims he's terrorizing. One wants to be a Barbra Streisand-esque singer if the picture of the pop star over her piano is any indication. She also likes to play sex games with her boyfriend where he pretends to be a rapist and break in to her apartment. The others are only distinguished by the color of their hair or the fact that one of them as a possible drunk with a southern accent.
There's not a lot of suspense for most of the film, but the finale does summon up a few chills and thrills as Kinski terrorizes his final victim through the maze of tunnels in the titular crawlspace. It's not a bad way to waste 80 minutes.
Crawlspace isn't much for nuance and, at 80 minutes, it doesn't have time for it either. We learn precious little about Klaus Kinski's creepy building manager or the victims he's terrorizing. One wants to be a Barbra Streisand-esque singer if the picture of the pop star over her piano is any indication. She also likes to play sex games with her boyfriend where he pretends to be a rapist and break in to her apartment. The others are only distinguished by the color of their hair or the fact that one of them as a possible drunk with a southern accent.
There's not a lot of suspense for most of the film, but the finale does summon up a few chills and thrills as Kinski terrorizes his final victim through the maze of tunnels in the titular crawlspace. It's not a bad way to waste 80 minutes.