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is surprised to find that Gus
Van Sant’s latest, Paranoid
Park, is an angst-filled delight:
“Gus Van Sant achieves thrilling new heights of lyrical
expressionism with Paranoid Park,
his fractured adaptation of a young-adult novel by Blake Nelson. Frankly, I was
so certain that I never wanted to see this particular director set foot on a
high-school campus again that I contemplated a restraining order. But this
brilliantly schizoid character study — structured as the letter-cum-journal
entry of Alex, a skate punk with a guilty conscience (sensational newcomer Gabe
Nevins, found via MySpace) — digs into the teenage mindset with a clarity and
eloquence that Elephant, with
its distracting (and, to my mind, obscene) echoes of real-world tragedy,
couldn't possibly achieve.”
Read
the full film review here. And check
out the review
of The Bank Job, starring the
Transporter…er, Jason Statham!
