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Title: So this is the director people talk about.
Review: I like arty dramatic films and I like genre films and mixing the two can sometimes create something that is transcendent (Don't Look Now, The Long Goodbye, No Country For Old Men, I Walked With A Zombie, 2001, Blow Up, Badlands, etc.) Not here.There were a few brief moments of tension killed by directing/editing choices that were clumsy and cliched (perhaps an ironic comment on genre cliches?). Too many quirky innocent ramblings about chiggers and books, that, spoken by children, must hold some profundity. The humor of the film came from the colorful locals and didn't seem to have much to do with any directorial intention. And finally, the music. We knew something dramatic was happening on the screen when the music kicked in. Philip Glass or not, the music was intrusive, clunky (like video game music during the action scenes) and cinematically redundant.
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