Cannes. The Milky Way.

"A cross-city drive turns into an existential odyssey in Lina Chamie's The Milky Way [A via lacteal], which opened Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar," writes Lee Marshall for Screen Daily. "Part urban road movie, part stream-of-consciousness cinematic monologue, Milky Way layers flashbacks, bon mots about life and death, and variant versions of the same scene into what could have made an intriguing 30-minute short."

"In her sophomore outing, Lina Chamie (Tonica Dominante, 2000) revels in intricate nonlinear execution," writes Variety's Lisa Nesselson, who finds it "doesn't so much run out of steam as wear out its welcome. But despite diminishing returns in final stretch, poignant punch line is worth waiting for."

At indieWIRE, Eric Kohn: "The main characters repeatedly combat one another and invariably reconcile their differences, but the dialogue, best described as Latin American Woody Allen, is full of silly neurotic asides but very little forward motion." But the "dream-like" transitions are the "movie's highlights - which is to say, it works best when the characters keep their mouths shut."

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Cannes @ 60. Index.

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Posted by dwhudson at May 29, 2007 5:00 AM