I saw Sherrybaby last night at the Sundance Film Festival and would rather have been standing out in the snow in my underwear!
This was Laurie Collyer's first crack at directing a narrative film and it shows. The premise seemed engaging enough; a recovering addict is let out of prison and tries to reconnect with her daughter and keep clean. However, it takes more than a good premise to make a good movie. The dialog was often awkwardly written and even more awkwardly delivered. Some of the cast have quite a bit of experience in front of the camera but delivered performances that were down right embarrassing. I feel like Laurie Collyer is responsible for these bad performances among other things. The camera work was frustrating to watch. I'm quite sure Serrybaby was shot on High Definition video. The colors just had that electronic video look. Many of the shots and some entire scenes had weird framing that seemed to be caused by bad blocking - Once again the director's fault.
Bad writing, crummy directing, lousy performances, dumpy photography - Oh and mix all of that with several extremely explicit sex scenes and what do you get? You guessed it ... Pornography. There is just nothing artful or good about this film. Sorry Laurie, I wish I could say something nice about your film because I'm sure you worked hard on it, but I can honestly say that this is the worst film I have ever seen.
I hear "Little Miss Sunshine" was great, but I wasn't able to catch it. Oh well! Sundance is always a crap-shoot but this year was the crappiest I've seen in years.
This was Laurie Collyer's first crack at directing a narrative film and it shows. The premise seemed engaging enough; a recovering addict is let out of prison and tries to reconnect with her daughter and keep clean. However, it takes more than a good premise to make a good movie. The dialog was often awkwardly written and even more awkwardly delivered. Some of the cast have quite a bit of experience in front of the camera but delivered performances that were down right embarrassing. I feel like Laurie Collyer is responsible for these bad performances among other things. The camera work was frustrating to watch. I'm quite sure Serrybaby was shot on High Definition video. The colors just had that electronic video look. Many of the shots and some entire scenes had weird framing that seemed to be caused by bad blocking - Once again the director's fault.
Bad writing, crummy directing, lousy performances, dumpy photography - Oh and mix all of that with several extremely explicit sex scenes and what do you get? You guessed it ... Pornography. There is just nothing artful or good about this film. Sorry Laurie, I wish I could say something nice about your film because I'm sure you worked hard on it, but I can honestly say that this is the worst film I have ever seen.
I hear "Little Miss Sunshine" was great, but I wasn't able to catch it. Oh well! Sundance is always a crap-shoot but this year was the crappiest I've seen in years.