Limited Release – April 11th
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Awards & Fests: Cannes, TIFF, NYFF, BFI London, Sitges, Sundance, SXSW
What the critic’s are saying?: Despite not picking up any awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Main Comp entry might be among our most beloved love stories for film years ending in ’13-’14. Placing high among our Cannes Critics Panel grid which includes Time Out Magazine’s David Calhoun, we agree with his assessment that “something magical and magnetic about this world of mature, know-it-all, ultra-cool vampires that Jarmusch creates and somehow it never seems at all silly.” I’m thinking this is arguably Jarmusch’s best since Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), although I personally have a soft spot for Broken Flowers (2005), but THR’s Todd McCarthy goes farther back in the Jarmusch timeline, calling the “addictive mood and tone piece” Jarmusch’s “best work in many years, probably since 1995’s Dead Man“. Comparably, I’m thinking that Dead Man is a slow-burner deluxe but IndieWIRE’s Eric Kohn suggests that it may not be too far off citing the filmmaker’s “patient, philosophical indulgences and the wooden exteriors of his characters’ lives, the movie rewards with a savvy emotional payoff about moving forward even when the motivation to do so has gone.”
Our number 2 Critics’ Pick of the month:
