Tribeca - Charly
According to the introduction to this film, the second directed by French actress Isild Le Besco, her first film was positively compared to Breathless. Alas, I have to say I would be more inclined to compare her current film to pointless. There were brief moments when her characters struggled to break free of the plodding morass that masqueraded as a plot, but those were quickly and efficiently crushed, usually by cutaways to animals swimming in an aquarium. The plot can basically be summarized as a fourteen year old boy (who would be the protagonist in a film which actually had a plot) who doesn’t do anything and has no future runs away from home for no reason, meets a similarly aged prostitute with OCD, spends a few days living in her trailer, goes to the beach, and then goes back home to his grandparents.
I should also mention, the entire thing is shot in a style which is either Dogme 95 or greatly resembles it, so the concept of lighting, exposure, shot composition, and decent sound are completely done away with as well. If it weren’t for the subtitles, there are plenty of moments when I would have had no idea what was being said because one actor was standing behind the mic. It does, however, include a gratuitous shot of male genitalia. Fantastic. I gave it a two out of five because I have seen worse films and the director showed up on roller skates, which is pretty hot.