rockdacasbah Review of Glue

Glue (2006)

Hmmm.... the concept was good, but the execution was tiresome

[4/10 · 14 September 2006]

I just saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival, and although I had high hopes, I didn't love it. The concept is good and should have worked - i.e. the frenetic and disjointed experience of teenage realities in remote Argentina being translated cinematically by alternating concentration on both the mundane and the exciting, using a lot of guerrilla hand-held camera work, solarized post-production, random cuts and stop-motion editing of the film. But the end product appears weak... at one point my friend said "I don't think I can stand another abstract, hand-held, blurry, close-up - its making me dizzy." The pacing of the film is really slow too. But I agree with some of the above comments - there are moments that are very sweet/naive - a total immersion into the teenage experience.