Will infuriate those who like their movies tight and tidy but go along for the ride and this is wind-in-your-hair thrilling. A modern classic.
Shot in startlingly intimate fashion, it combines gritty blue-collar realism with moments of extraordinary tenderness and lyricism.
It’s a little too long, but holds the attention thanks to Lane’s charisma, Ryan’s breathtaking cinematography and the dizzying power of young love.
As an anarchic door-to-door sales crew roam the US, they take time out to scrap, have sex and party hard in Andrea Arnold’s dizzying, delirious road movie.
It’s as brilliant and compelling as it is maddening and repetitious.
The dreamy film has plaintive and poignant moments but it never justifies an excessive running time or arrives at any significant conclusion.
Andrea Arnold’s tough but tender road trip with a busload of young magazine sellers is dazzling. Even Shia LaBeouf can’t spoil it.
Andrea Arnold interview.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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