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chapter11 [ 8.0 ]
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Well acted and often heartbreaking, "All the Real Girls" was one of David Gordon Green's early indies before he started making big-time comedies. It's a good one, if not as potent as his first feature, "George Washington" - too much slice-of-life downtime, I suppose, although it goes a long way towards establishing setting. The underrated Paul Schneider delivers as a small-town lothario, and it's great to see Shea Wigham and Danny McBride in early roles (Wigham is particularly good, communicating more through his face and a series of grunts than most actors can convey in lengthy soliloquies), but it does move a little bit slow. That said, when Zooey Deschanel drops the bomb on Schneider, it hurts, and big-time - the romance takes so much time to be established that it's painful to see it disintegrate.
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RyanSpradlin [ 9.5 ]
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All the Real Girls is painfully realistic. There is no summary that I could write worthy of all of the emotional content packed into this movie. It is often hilarious, insightful, mundane, discouraging, and melancholy. It covers all the karmic consequences of having been both a good and bad person. It will most definitely have you reliving past loves and doing a little self-examination. The characters are great and it draws you in instantly.
Also, the DVD has some of the best deleted scenes of all time. I have seen it for 15$ at some stores. It is well worth the money.
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jeff_v [ 8.5 ]
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Like my favorite movie from last year, Punch-Drunk Love, this is a romantic movie, with hearty doses of pain and humor to round out its swoony center. David Gordon Green is American Independent Film's poet laureate, a title he's earned in just two films. Each scene is a stanza; the narrative chimes in like a refrain. The photography is unselfconsciously beautiful, and Green is unafraid to include shots merely because they are interesting. Perhaps the most original quality is the film's dialogue, which I've heard is improvised, but doesn't sound like filmed results of most improvisations, which are long on repetition and short on inspiration. In All the Real Girls, it actually sounds like these lines are being said for the first time, and the characters are feeling their way through their situations at the same time that we are.
So what's it all about? Again, like Punch-Drunk Love, it has something to do with the way we regard ourselves when we're in love.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.6 |
| No. Ratings | : 11 | |
| No. Reviews | : 5 | |
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