Kabluey.

In Kabluey, Scott Prendergast "assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in McMansion land, ho-hum) and every conceivable anxiety-inducer known to late-00s Americans - joblessness, war, credit-card debt, menial labor, economic turmoil, live offspring - to pull off what may be the best evocation of contemporary alienation in a movie so far this year," writes Mark Holcomb in Time Out New York.

"The film's distance from factual reality oddly enhances its bleak underlying vision," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. "It portrays a demoralized American work force fearfully going through the motions of life while waiting without much hope for things to get better."

"The landscape Predergast surveys is a familiar one, and though his isn't a detonative mind, his understanding of the body as image and form of branding, and fixation with the way people hide behind masks, enriches Kabluey with a striking ambiguity." Ed Gonzalez in Slant.

For Filmmaker, Nick Dawson talks with Prendergast "about Kabluey's 'Eureka!' moment, hitting rock bottom before making the film, and getting over excited about his first trip to a movie theater."

Posted by dwhudson at July 4, 2008 1:11 PM