After her striking, unforgettable debut in Heavenly Creatures, Melanie Lynskey has crafted a career largely out of deftly inhabiting a wide variety of supporting roles, always with a quiet centeredness that suggest various rich inner landscapes. In the funny, resonant dramedy Hello I Must Be Going, however, she gets to step into the limelight. The opening night film at the Sundance Film Festival, actor-turned-director Todd Louiso’s movie centers on a recent divorcée, Amy, who seeks mental refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. There, contemplating the crossroads of thirtysomething life, she hooks up with a 19-year-old actor (Christopher Abbott). Recently, I chatted with the lovely Lynskey in person about her on-set playlists, Twitter, embracing uncomfortableness and why dating used to freak her out. The conversation is excerpted over at New York Magazine‘s Vulture, so click here for the read.
Daily Archives: September 9, 2012
The Victim
Extra helpings of off-kilter and off-key melodrama sink Michael Biehn‘s bewildering directorial debut The Victim, a nasty little down-and-dirty thriller about a murder, a panicked stripper on the lam, and a trio of guys trying to sort out the truth of her story and protect their own skins. Beset with many of the problems of low-budget indie flicks but none of the narrative cleverness, stylistic fleetness of foot or other mechanisms of coping with them, this grindhouse-type offering may find a certain cult-ish reception amongst longtime fans of the veteran genre actor, but otherwise disappear without a trace. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (Anchor Bay, R, 83 minutes)