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Tribeca Film: S#X ACTS
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Israeli filmmaker Jonathan Gurfinkel’s and writer Rona Segal have created a film that feels more like a documentary exposing the cavalier relationship many teens and young adults have with sex. It would seem young women around the world give out BJ’s and hand jobs like it means nothing. If S#X ACTS weren’t in subtitles (Hebrew), I would have sworn the movie was set in a suburb of The United States. Gili (Sivan Levy) is an attractive girl of about 16 or 17, she’s not traditionally pretty, but definitely appealing, like a cheaper version of a young Marion Cotillard. The film begins with Gili taking selfies,…
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Tribeca Film: SPARROWS DANCE
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Sparrows Dance, written and directed by Noah Buschel, has the thoughtful sensibility of a foreign film – the structure, the coloring and handling of the film felt as if I should be reading subtitles. The protagonist (Marin Ireland) suffers from the panic disorder, agoraphobia. I call her the protagonist,because the character is never named. I’m sure there are other movieswith a nameless main character, and if you think of one, please leavea comment, but the only other film that I can think of, is my very favorite – Hitchcock’s Rebecca. So “She” hasn’t left her apartment in over a year, we see her on her…
