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SXSW Review: Humpday

So far at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, I’ve seen at least one movie with a good shot at landing on my year-end Top Ten List and one that may already be my personal lock for Worst Film of The Year.

Imagine all the worst case scenarios you might associate with the term "indie film," and you'll find most of them on display in David Lee Miller's intolerable feature My Suicide. Overbearing, in-your-face mixed media visuals? Check. Facile approach to "edgy" subject matter? Check. Record label-approved hipster band soundtrack slathered over every scene? Check. Photogenic young cast sure to meet the approval of The Hills demographic? Check. Any sort of heart or insight or recognizable human behavior? Nowhere to be found.

Posted Mar 16 2009, 03:00 PM by Scott Von Doviak with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: apocalypse now, taxi driver, sxsw, natural born killers, scott von doviak, the matrix, the deer hunter, requiem for a dream, brooke nevin, sxsw 2009, david lee miller, gabriel sunday, my suicide

SXSW Review: Humpday

SXSW Review: "My Suicide"