Exploding Girl
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Starring: Mark Rendell, Hunter Canning, Zoe Kazan, Maryann Urbano
Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going ?on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan.
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.
When you have an actor as suggestive as Kazan, swallowing up the lens with allure and complexity, your writer-director becomes superfluous.
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.
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.
Bradley Rust Gray
Independent Spirit Awards (2011)
Narrative Feature
Tribeca Film Festival (2009)
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