Sundance: Dargis Does The Post-Mortem
The New York Times’ rather unreliable movie critic Mahohla Dargis surveys this year’s Sundance Film Festival and pronounces: This year’s edition was ‘marked by aesthetic ambition, a formidable female presence and enough on-screen sex to take the chill off,’ and ‘gives optimistic proof of the state of American independent cinema.’ But when I read over her evaluation the only movie I really wanted to see was “Before Midnight,” directed by Richard Linklater. Although I will probably steel my way through “Interior. Leather Bar. (pictured)â€. Dargis describes it as ‘a serious yet playful hourlong deconstruction of the representation of homosexuality as viewed through the prism of “Cruising,†William Friedkin’s 1980 film about an undercover cop,’ directed by James Franco and Travis Mathews.
