Why Sundance Movies Are Like Porn
The Sundance Film Festival, held every January in Utah, is a place where adult kids desperate to be cool run around telling the world that the movie they just saw in a school basement was the greatest thing since “Amarcord.” Six months later, the movie is released to the rest of us and the puzzlement is gargantuan. Calum Marsh, aware of this phenomenon, looks at the current release “Me And Earl and the Dying Girl” (pictured) and comments: ‘Like pornography, you know a Sundance movie when you see it. The overweening preciousness, the highly cultivated eccentricity: it’s the spirit of the picture that makes it so recognizable.’
