New Directions Summer Film Series...
Gretchen
(2007, 98 mins)
Writer/Director: Steve Collins
Cast: Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Macon Blair, Becky Ann Baker, Stephen Root
Cinematographer: PJ Raval
Composer: Graham Reynolds
Thursday, June 18, 2009 – 7pm
Sunday, June 21, 2009 – 3pm
Blanton Museum of Art
200 E. MLK Blvd.
Cast and Crew in attendance at both screenings*
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She’s 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth — high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy. Davis delivers a unique performance as the perpetually uncomfortable Gretchen. Collins focuses on the smallest moments of adolescence and how they can explode into what feels like high drama in a teenager’s mind. Shot entirely in Austin and featuring a local cast and crew, the film went on to win top honors at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
“Collins' uneasy satire serves as a last laugh for those who regard high school as anything but the best years of their lives.” – Peter Debruge, Variety
”A beautiful, delicate look at the nasty pains of teenage relationships.” – Jette Kernion, Cinematical
“Collins achieves some ingenious visual jokes, using framing, camera movement and other basic elements to earn laughs that more mundane directors only dream of.” – Eric D. Snider, efilmcritic.com
Bookmark this page:
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
