May 21, 2007

Cannes. Garage.

Garage "Funny, moving and tragic, Garage, the second feature collaboration between director Lenny Abrahamson and scriptwriter Mark O'Holloran - after the award-winning Adam & Paul - was rumored to be one of Cannes' good surprises," writes Vitor Pinto at Cineuropa. "Confirmation arrived... as the film touched the audience of its Directors' Fortnight screening."

"Calling Garage a 'small' film would be true enough, but the Hope diamond, all things considered, is awfully small as well," writes Peter Brunette for Screen Daily. "Both, in any case, are gems."

Variety's Russell Edwards disagrees. "Strained humor gives way to maudlin melodrama.... Narrative plods along providing easy laughs, and when script eventually reveals its dramatic intentions, scenario is blandly obvious."

Cannes @ 60. Index.

Posted by dwhudson at May 21, 2007 8:01 AM