The Official "gravida" reaction thread

[pryor15]

So rather than randomly put this in the B&S threads, I'm putting it all here as they come in.



Official Webpage

preview/review:

Film of the Year

The results are heartfelt and poetic. If McNelly is striving to craft an indie film masterwork gravida is a major step in the right direction.


Interview at Mirror/Stage

[pryor15]

also, i'll put a trip report of the premiere in here

[Dominic]

nice review!

[pryor15]

Last Night with Riviera

It's a well-worn path... but he manages to encourage people to look at the scenery differently, while paying tribute to those who've walked it before him.

With a great ear for dialogue he captures the awkwardness of the first date: the shifting glances, the social niceties, the body language, the right words which elude us when we most need them. We've all been there, and the realism of the dialogue and its delivery make it impossible for us not to relate.

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Like the best films about intimacy, it draws you in close but leaves out enough that you can project your own hopes and fears onto the characters. This allows for conflicting sympathies and ensures that not everyone in the audience relate with the characters in the same way. Loneliness is a mysterious beast, hard to tame. Resisting the tentation to simplify, gravida invites us to ponder the complexity of the choices we make, the unreliability of human connections.

[pryor15]

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nice review!

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thanks. it's kind of scary, the review process, b/c they could, you know, hate it

[SL__72]

Wow, thats a really really good review.

[pryor15]

i know. crazy, isn't it?

[SL__72]

I suppose we'll see [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[pryor15]

Bohemian Cinema

"Watching gravida, I gained a little more faith in ultra-low budget filmmaking; it's far from a perfect film, but it shows that you don't need a lot of money to make a smart, personal, interesting movie. To do this, Lucas McNelly's film utilizes the writer-director's ear for dialogue and some intriguing subtext in it's look at a woman who's dealing with something very familiar: loneliness."

[Runkmud]

Great reviews Pryor, congrats on your success!!!