The H is for Horrendous: Dennis Lee Sledgehammers Black Comedy
It’s hard to pin-point when exactly American independent cinema developed an unnecessary and unwarranted tendency...
The title of the film is taken from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called “Spring and Fall,” wherein the poem’s narrator addresses a young girl named Margaret. The narrator instructs the young woman, “Ah as the heart grows older/It will come to sights much colder….It is the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for.” And so it is Lisa who begins to learn that she’s not grieving for the dead woman or even fighting for justice. Instead, she’s mourning for her own loss of ideals, her own dissipation of youth and ignorance. A complicated, thoroughly impressive film with some excellent dialogue, it’s also a nostalgic time capsule of both New York and its actors from a few years ago, filmed in 2005. Since then, all our hearts have grown older.
While they made several pick-ups at the festival, Focus Features aren't in the habit of premiering films in Park City, so we can call Being Flynn, the adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, my hail mary pass pick on this predictions list.