Exploding Girl

2009 Drama

Director: Bradley Rust Gray

Starring: Mark Rendell, Hunter Canning, Zoe Kazan, Maryann Urbano

Reviews

  • Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going ?on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    19 January 2013

  • Small scale though it is, this is a film that knows what it wants to do and has thought out exactly how to go about doing it. The same must be said about the luminous nature of Kazan's performance, which won best actress last year at the Tribeca Film Festival.

    Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times

    19 January 2013

  • When you have an actor as suggestive as Kazan, swallowing up the lens with allure and complexity, your writer-director becomes superfluous.

    Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York

    19 January 2013

  • The emotional detonations prove minor but movingly resonant in The Exploding Girl, an indie character study built four-square round Zoe Kazan's persuasive performance.

    - The Hollywood Reporter

    19 January 2013

  • Those who can hang on through the mumblecore-ish narrative languor of the nicely photographed The Exploding Girl will savor a very talented actress' sensitive portrait of youthful awkwardness.

    Lou Lumenick - New York Post

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Bradley Rust Gray

    Independent Spirit Awards (2011)

     
  • Narrative Feature

    Tribeca Film Festival (2009)