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| Groove | 27 Aug 00 |
This honest little indie (the first sale at Sundance this year) has grown on me tremendously in the four days since I saw it. Blinded by the sheer number of traditional good guy/bad guy/someone must pay Hollywood Product movies I see, I felt at the time something was missing. But in all likelyhood, what was missing was good sound: I had the misfortune to see what's essentially a concert film in mono with about five people in the theater. But increasingly, I feel a lingering afterglow similar to what I get from a really memorable concert. (For those who don't know about my other passion, I've been to [and photographed] nearly as many concerts in the past three years as I've been to movies.) That a fiction film did this is rare: it found some real truth. A