The Exploding Girl Review
Release Date: March 12 Director/Writer: Bradley Rust Gray Starring: Zoe Kazan, Mark Rendall Cinematographer: Eric Lin Studio/Run Time: Oscilloscope, 79 mins. Bradley Rust Gray’s low-key second film, about an epileptic college student on break in New York City, offers no grand moments or spectacular explosions. Instead, The Exploding Girl is an ambitiously life-size coming-of-age story, striving for a moody, post-adolescent realism constructed of small events and improvised chatter—and it’s this everyday scope that makes the movie both charming and frustrating.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsBest of What's Next 2009: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim [Filmmakers]
Hometowns: Kettering, Ohio (Gray); Busan, South Korea (Kim)Films: Treeless Mountain (Kim), The Exploding Girl (March 2010, Gray)For Fans of: Ramin Bahrani, Andrew Bujalski, Kelly Reichardt... read more
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