Tribeca 2009: "The Exploding Girl."
Named after the B-side to The Cure's "In Between Days" -- the tune that provided the title to director Bradley Rust Gray's wife and filmmaking partner So Yong Kim's 2006 debut -- "The Exploding Girl" is a similarly moody slow-motion maybe love story between a young woman and the male best friend she's begun to reconsider in a romantic light. While Kim's film mixed its adolescent angst with the isolation of the newly immigrated, Gray's is set in more familiar territory, at least to anyone who's been to a festival in the last few years. It's mumblecoresque mainly in its milieu of inarticulate, educated 20-somethings -- formally, "The Exploding Girl" is more ambitious, a beautifully shot study of bottled up feelings that's also maddening in its lack of sharp edges. There's a medical motivation to its mildness. Ivy (played by up-and-comer Zoe Kazan), "The Exploding Girl"'s focus, has epilepsy, and...
Read the complete post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifc/indieeye/~3/-PK53iC8e5g/the-exploding-girl.php