Reviewed for Arizona Reporter
By Harvey Karten
Grade: C-
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Written By: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, Frank Garvin, Alma Prelec, Andre Hayward
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/19/10
Opens: November 5, 2010
Here in New York we can.t avoid running into the lines for Broadway shows. Revivals of the old musicals get a generally older crowd whose favorite expression is "You can.t hum the tunes in a Sondheim musical," as though hummability is the sine qua non of quality. Sondheim is fine. And the fact that you can.t hum the tunes played in part by the Bratislava Orchestra for director Damien Chazelle.s "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" is also fine. What.s not so fine is the ragged, grainy, 16mm low-budget aspect of the movie, which Chazelle hopes will be judged as so nouveau, so original, that no sophisticated person can be anything but delighted.
By Harvey Karten
Grade: C-
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Written By: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, Frank Garvin, Alma Prelec, Andre Hayward
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/19/10
Opens: November 5, 2010
Here in New York we can.t avoid running into the lines for Broadway shows. Revivals of the old musicals get a generally older crowd whose favorite expression is "You can.t hum the tunes in a Sondheim musical," as though hummability is the sine qua non of quality. Sondheim is fine. And the fact that you can.t hum the tunes played in part by the Bratislava Orchestra for director Damien Chazelle.s "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" is also fine. What.s not so fine is the ragged, grainy, 16mm low-budget aspect of the movie, which Chazelle hopes will be judged as so nouveau, so original, that no sophisticated person can be anything but delighted.
- 11/12/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Year: 2009
Directors: Damien Chazelle
Writers: Damien Chazelle
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 6 out of 10
Ugh. I don’t know. This film that people seem to be talking about just didn’t do it for me. Maybe I’ve been around too many theater majors to appreciate the beautiful whimsy of out of left field sing songy dance sequences, in an otherwise stoicism-meets-the poetic film, but I call Bs. I’ve seen it all before and certainly done better (Buffalo 66 anyone?).
Tell you what. I’ll give this film a six because, yeah the instrumentation of leading man Guy (played by pro trumpeter Jason Palmer) is off the handle, and the female roles are strong and barely subordinary, but over all I thought this wreaked of “Hey isn’t jazz the music that best sums up love’s complexity? And isn’t it just so darn hip and marginal when done right?...
Directors: Damien Chazelle
Writers: Damien Chazelle
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 6 out of 10
Ugh. I don’t know. This film that people seem to be talking about just didn’t do it for me. Maybe I’ve been around too many theater majors to appreciate the beautiful whimsy of out of left field sing songy dance sequences, in an otherwise stoicism-meets-the poetic film, but I call Bs. I’ve seen it all before and certainly done better (Buffalo 66 anyone?).
Tell you what. I’ll give this film a six because, yeah the instrumentation of leading man Guy (played by pro trumpeter Jason Palmer) is off the handle, and the female roles are strong and barely subordinary, but over all I thought this wreaked of “Hey isn’t jazz the music that best sums up love’s complexity? And isn’t it just so darn hip and marginal when done right?...
- 4/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Editor’s Note: This is one of dozens of interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in the narrative and doc competitions as well as the Discovery section. The festival takes place April 22 - May 3. ”Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” (Discovery section) Feature Narrative, 2009, 82 min., U.S. Director: Damien Chazelle Primary Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, …...
- 4/17/2009
- indieWIRE - People
Editor’s Note: This is one of dozens of interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in the narrative and doc competitions as well as the Discovery section. The festival takes place April 22 - May 3. ”Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” (Discovery section) Feature Narrative, 2009, 82 min., U.S. Director: Damien Chazelle Primary Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, …...
- 4/17/2009
- indieWIRE - People
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