🎵 It feeeels like a fiiiirst film!
It feeeels like a very first film!!!

(Still good though!)

I liked that it is set in Florida. I am from Florida. So, fun to watch and think, “that’s where I’m from.”

“too much daydreaming left me blue”

feels a little like kelly reichardt‘s pulp fiction moment for better or worse, but i’m glad her films only grew softer and more thoughtful later on. she truly is a quintessential american director

the scene where the anti-heroes are passing a joint back and forth with their dirty feet is a good capsule of the funny/sad/grimy/romantic/weird balancing act this is doing, and i don't know how else to put it in words

"if we weren't killers we weren't anything."

florida dirtbag Badlands. love stories about people constantly messing up and seeking meaning and worth despite their material circumstances that try to deny them those things but kinda felt more like i was observing these characters rather than really feeling their experiences which kinda mutes the ending. but good location work and sense of ennui that develops through the images. also always no matter what enjoy watching criminals who are very bad at being criminals; loved the scene where the dude hesitates to pull his gun out and rob the convenience store and while he hesitates another dude runs in and robs it first lol. solid debut.

Fandor - New scan and restoration looks fantastic.

Nineties cool meets Florida redneck grime.

52 project: 91/52

if you don't love kelly reichardt at her river of grass then you don't deserve her at her first cow

Policías que pasan el rato en una tienda de discos de jazz <3

Painful tranquility takes form in a movie. The uneasy feeling I got was amazing, but it seems like there's so much more I should have grabbed onto from this film.

Only worth seeing if you’re a Reichardt fan.

Early Reichardt is different in tone than her later PNW flicks, but still fascinating and takes on a deadpan Jim Jarmusch/Aki Kaurismäki sensibility, along with a Harmony Korine energy that paints makes this an interesting portrait of discontent and disconnect, drenched in dusty Americana

Reichardt’s least essential film, but still an interesting exploration of the unique flavor of the hopelessness in White Trash Florida. 

Also, the role Larry Fessenden was born for, for what that’s worth.

It’s fine! The directing and editing is generally interesting to look at and there’s a pleasant humor to it but I didn’t necessarily laugh at anything and by the time it ended I kind of had to say “oh I am bored rn :/“

So far from Reichardt’s later work in terms of pace and plot and while it has that potent first film vibe this is still very Reichardt at its core, so obviously I liked it. Her ability to build a sense of ennui through place and performance was all there from the start, just waiting for a more focussed approach. Really great ending as well. Some of my fav endings are the ones that bring everything a film is trying to say into vivid focus through a startling event and this was certainly one of those

Nothing like a Kelly Reichardt classic, with some pizza and beer, to celebrate my 35th birthday! After seeing this one, I have now officially seen all of her films. I first saw "Wendy and Lucy" back in 2010 or 2011, and I have made sure to seek out everything else she's done before and since. She is one of very few "realist" filmmakers who seems like a "real" and empathetic person herself, at least in the way that her characters come across in her movies.
It is so interesting to see how she was developing many of her trademarks already in her very first feature-length picture. Although I would also say that each one of her movies is unique and stands alone as well. I think this also might be her funniest movie.

This one is a breeze, at less than 80 minutes, and is definitely worth watching if you are a Reichardt-head like myself!

this is so pretty mmmm

nihilistic slacker vibes combined with a Badlands-like two-lovers-on-a-crime-spree plot, and while we are at Malick there is a lot of a pondering voice-overs. a pretty cool 90s indie debut, though it's certainly an odd entry in kelly's filmography, but then again there's a 12-year difference between this and her second feature.

Empezó con el pie correcto, luego hubo una secuencia con un tambor y con imágenes de absolutamente nada, que me hizo apreciar más Whiplash y Birdman.
Por otro lado, esta película se maneja muy extrañamente y me recuerda a Badlands, con una fotografía intensa pero actuaciones más o menos, por no decir malas.
Reichardt empieza a buen paso, porque nos sigue presentando un concepto interesante el cual es: querer escapar.
No conozco a nadie que no haya querido escapar, no importa de que.
Aún así, tengo esperanzas de que el resto de sus películas se elevaran mucho más de lo que está pudo.
Algunos diálogos son presentados sin más, me gusta escuchar la opinión de la familia acerca de los personajes pero aún así, se siente que algo falta, algo importante.
Igualmente fue interesante.
5.8/10

kelly reichardts debut is much different than her newer films. her usual serene style is not present here, as this film operates in a loud and raw way. it’s my least favorite of reichardt’s films but it’s still a solid debut.

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