- 2006
- Benten Films
- 1 h 5 m
SummaryApathetic seventeen-year-old Gus hangs around doing nothing with his buddy Bill most of the time. Gus likes to tell half-true stories about all the girls he's slept with and all the drugs he's done. Jessica is seventeen too. She doesn't seem to have much in common with anyone anymore – not even her best friend Christie. Every year this one guy Br...
Directed By:Aaron Katz
Written By:Aaron Katz
Dance Party, USA
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Dramatically simple but emotionally complex.
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Delving beneath skin level and examining the mind of an 18-next-week boy, Dance Party is challenging, gritty, and true.
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Directed with extraordinary empathy by Aaron Katz (who also wrote the story), Dance Party, USA is an admittedly slight movie, but one that is given heft by a yearning tone and a camera fascinated by the emotional shifts and shadows on a young person's face.
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Writer-director Aaron Katz has a gift for naturalistic dialogue--that alone allows his film to transcend the micro-budget indie gabfest genre. On the other hand, there's a fine line between naturalistic and dull, and Dance Party occasionally crosses it as its young actors talk about life, or don't talk about life.
By Jordan Harper
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