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August 20, 2005
Taking plans from Nigel: the FT likes Miranda July
Rubbishing the Guardian's prickly-puss, the Financial Times' Nigel Andrews air-kisses mild modest Miranda: "It is completely unfair to make a film such as Me and You and Everyone We Know. Hollywood and the high-budget tripe industry toil night and day to produce a Bewitched or an Unleashed: the first a big-screen sitcom stuffed with whimsy and Nicole Kidman, the second a barking-mad action thriller starring Jet Li as a human attack dog. Then the video-artist-turned-filmmaker, Miranda July, strolls in... and world-releases her no-frills, no-stars, almost no-budget movie about absolutely nothing... If this film were any more enchanting, it would have to be quarantined. Moguls whose movies are powerless to enchant, even to charm, would not want their impotence derided by its insouciance... [It proves] there is a subtly beating pulse of wit, sadness, compassion and gentle satire even in the land of Bush and Bruckheimer."
Posted by pride at August 20, 2005 01:01 AM
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