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"Shot
in digital video, A Sudden Loss of Gravity has the look and feel not so
much of documentary, but of unfolding reality, the film's many flashbacks
unreeling like memories...the film perfectly nails the frustration adolescents
feel regarding small-town existence." -Reel "'A Sudden Loss Of Gravity' is an eerily authentic and urgently somber look at lives going nowhere in mid-80's Bangor, Maine." -FilmThreat "An offbeat & totally hip drama..." -Mill Valley Festival Notes "'Gravity' plays like a mix between a video 'River's Edge' and one of those tabloid cop shows shot on acid... Verow and Dwyer make an asset out of the aesthetic limitations of video, and in the process create new schools of writing and acting." -Bay Area Reporter featuring music by Who Killed Bambi? |
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WAVE TEENS "The ‘80s erupt in a
quiet northern town in this new-wave fairytale centered on a group of
reckless teenagers and the single event that haunts all of their lives.
Digital media innovator Todd Verow (Little Shots of Happiness MVFF 1997)
and his ensemble cast descend on his hometown of Bangor, Maine. Luckily, other than that bit of epic weirdness "A Sudden Loss Of Gravity" is an eerily authentic and urgently somber look at lives going nowhere in mid-80's Bangor, Maine. Todd Verow's follow-up to the well received "Shucking The Curve" is essentially the dark side to John Hughes' high school pop fantasies. Some of these kids are mourning a deadly Prom Night drinking and driving disaster, some are reacting to the aftermath of a hate crime, and some just have nothing better to do. Life for these kids is day
after day of driving back and forth with nothing to do, hopefully looking
for a good place to get ripped where the cops won't hassle you. The
80's fashions that looked so goofy in "The Wedding Singer"
are shown here to be something much more dingy and desperate, almost
an acute cry for help. Nothing really happens over the course of "A
Sudden Loss of Gravity" -- just the day by day somber unproductive
filling up of time by lost souls with nowhere to go and little hope
for achievement. Parts of the film are confusing and slow going, but
it is time and again rescued by its sad authenticity." |
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