Writing in
Sight and Sound,
Amy Taubin surveys the young Americans at Cannes -- John Cameron Mitchell, Rick Linklater, and, finally, Richard Kelly:
"It's about how a bunch of teenagers are dying because we don't have an alternative fuel source," said Richard Kelly of 'Southland Tales', his hallucinatory, media-saturated, apocalyptic, broken-hearted, future/present follow-up to 'Donnie Darko' - which has just a ghost of a chance of being shown theatrically in its two-hour 43-minute Cannes version. As oneiric and overwhelming as two memorial films of Cannes past - David Lynch's 'Mulholland Dr.' and Wong Kar-Wai's '2046' - and a lot funnier, 'Southland Tales' attributes the war in Iraq and the devastation of the planet to the greed and increasing desperation of Big Oil and to the all-encompassing (at least in the US) media culture, of which the film is unabashedly a part. Kelly's mash-up owes as much to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as to 'Kiss Me Deadly' and the aforementioned Lynch Hollywood dystopia, as well as recalling two American underground film-makers - Ken Jacobs and Manuel De Landa - whose work Kelly has probably never seen.
Comments (1)
I'm really looking forward to Southland Tales despite the negative buzz from Cannes. I'm glad to hear some more positive thought about the movie.
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posted by Josh Boelter @ 6/22/2006 3:07 PM
