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Pieces of April Last night we went to our local Landmark Theater and saw "Pieces of April" and I came away from this tiny little film realizing I had just seen a great and honest piece of cinema. It was sincere, funny, true and wonderful. Peter Hedges wrote and first-time directed this film (he also wrote "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the screenplay for "About A Boy"), and performances were great all around. Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson -- all very well done. The truly amazing thing about POA, though, is that it is a no-budget movie shot on digital video. It looked really good! Ok, a couple of very short rough spots, but still... No-budget? Yeah, no budget -- like, made for $160,000 and the actors and crew supposedly brought their own brown-bag lunches type of no-budget! Shot in 16 days. Zowie. I'm scraping up pennies for a new camera... Oh, and some of the music was by Stephen Merritt (ala The Magnetic Fields). Go see it! posted by jeremy at 10:12 PM
I have been reading about this movie and have been very anxious to see it. After reading this I am going to try and see it tomorrow. We went and saw it last night, it was a wonderful story, I thought the whole movie looked a bit dark, I wonder if that is how they covered up the DV quality of it.. still not complaining, I think a few more movies like that and it will get much better. still impressive that a movie can be made for such a small cost, and be good, to bad there were only 4 people in the theater when we saw it. posted by: bill on November 30, 2003 5:25 PM |