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| Richard Kelly resurrects 'Southland' |
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| Tuesday, 18 September 2007 | |
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from The LA TImes by Mark Olsen
'Donnie Darko' director knows from experience that a film can overcome a poor showing at Cannes. TORONTO -- It was an offer he couldn't refuse. The Cannes Film Festival invited writer-director Richard Kelly to screen his second feature as part of its prestigious competition section. So Kelly took his "Southland Tales" to France in 2006, even though there was work still to be done on it.
The response? Disastrous. A "career killer," according to more than one industry watcher. Variety's review called it "pretentious, overreaching and fatally unfocused." The Village Voice said it was "a high-voltage farrago of unsynopsizable plots and counterplots" -- and that was one of the kind notices. "Even with all that happened, I don't regret it," Kelly said recently of the experience. "Now that all the dust has settled, the movie is actually better off because of it. Honestly, it is. The hope is we can still somehow recover and the movie can find an audience." READ ARTICLE |
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