As the San Francisco Independent Film Festival drew to a close yesterday, it bowed out with a final night time showing of Deadgirl, a controversial picture that challenges the audience's idea of sex and the coming-of-age. It's a nice bookmark to its opening night film, Somers Town, which is also about two teenage boys and a girl, but is at the opposite end of the spectrum. In between, we have films that are either full of life or apologetically cynical, completing a journey from the sweet to the depraved.
Here's a recap of the interesting independent films we had the chance to see.
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The Best
Deadgirl
"It uses otherworldly elements to perform a horrific probe of the human experience, which is what the best horror films always do." (Read more)
Somers Town
"After confronting xenophobia so thoroughly and intensely in This is England, Somers Town is the perfect show of progression,...
Here's a recap of the interesting independent films we had the chance to see.
• • •
The Best
Deadgirl
"It uses otherworldly elements to perform a horrific probe of the human experience, which is what the best horror films always do." (Read more)
Somers Town
"After confronting xenophobia so thoroughly and intensely in This is England, Somers Town is the perfect show of progression,...
- 2/23/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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