Review of All the Real Girls (2003) by Michael M — 16 Mar 2009
Probably more than any other movie or song or story I know, this evokes for me the blissfulness and the intense, piercing, yearning, heartbreaking, devouring pain of a beautiful relationship turned sour.
I cried, and I can probably count the movies that have made me cry on one hand. Gut-wrenching. Painful. But really beautifully real and truthful. David Gordon Greene is effing amazing. This guy creates a time and place and mood and characters so perfectly and naturally and seemingly effortlessly--you might not know it, but there is absolutely nothing more compelling than a few people in small-town North Carolina who aren't all that educated and mostly sit around and don't do much and talk about things that people in small-town North Carolina who aren't all that educated talk about and hang out and stuff.
The cinematography, the music, the writing, the performances. Man. I wish I could make movies like that guy makes movies.
This review of All the Real Girls (2003) was written by Michael M on 16 Mar 2009.
All the Real Girls has generally received positive reviews.
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