Sundance. The Go-Getter.

"[Martin] Hynes clearly has serious chops as a director," writes Mike D'Angelo at Screengrab. "If he can dial it down a few notches while maintaining The Go-Getter's hazy, lyrical, asymmetrical visual style, he'll have something really special."

Cinematical's James Rocchi: "A charitable observer would suggest that the flurry of so-called independent films where a bright, neurotic stand-in for the (male) writer-director finds love with a special, super-pretty snowflake of a girl represents our shared yearning for love and belonging; a more cynical one would suggest that this is the sort of self-pleasing fantasy that feels like it was typed one-handed because the not-that-creative creator was using the other to pat himself on the back or do other things to other body parts."

"How many road trip movies of self discovery starring artsy, skinny, white kids that fall in love with unconventionally cute little brown-haired girls do we need?" grumbles Zack Haddad in Film Threat.

Online viewing tip. An iW VIDEO interview with Lou Taylor Pucci and Zooey Deschanel.

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.

Posted by dwhudson at January 31, 2007 7:33 AM