All the Real Girls : Movie Review


David Gordon Green’s All the Real Girls (the follow-up to his astonishing 2000 debut George Washington) exhibits the same gently lackadaisical rhythm and acute perception of human joy and misery that made his debut such a success, even as it charts new territory. A dreamy tale of the wondrous elation and sometimes terrible sorrow that accompanies love, the Sundance hit – about the budding relationship between an immature rabble-rouser and the sister of his best friend – occasionally threatens to devolve into laughable sentimentality. But Green’s assured direction and two outstanding lead performances never allow this minor masterpiece to lose its course, and the results are a sumptuous romance that pulsates with the passionate ecstasy of the smitten heart.

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Author : Nicholas Schager