; sought out some critical response, which was predictably polarized but unusually distanced on the warm side i.e. the people who think he's probably great can't seem to say why, other than to praise him for "depicting reality," which I don't buy. On the one hand, pure grotequerie isn't that appealing to me - if I never see another Solondz or Larry Clark movie, it'll be too soon - but on the other hand, Seidl's compositional eye is unbelievable, and the tension in his scenes actually deserves the Cassavetes comparison I read in a one review of
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― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link