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I once read a treatment for a music video proposed by some experimental filmmakers. Their work seemed to defy words, so in the description, they simply wrote: “Never boring! Always interesting!” This is how I might partially sum up Robert Mockler’s directorial debut, Like Me, a vomit of color, sound, strobes and milk — milk? Yes, milk — centered on a young woman, Kiya (Addison Timlin), who becomes addicted to the thrill of recording people humiliating themselves and then uploading the videos to her website.
Mockler seems to be striving for profound revelations about human connection (or lack thereof) in the digital age, but in a fiction that kind of meaning best comes from character rather than circumstance. (See: Ingrid Goes West). Still, Timlin so fully embodies the role of the sociopathic Kiya that this often-gruesome buffet of wild imagery bathed in hot pink impresses even with a thin, nearly nonexistent story. And Mockler’s and Jessalyn Abbott’s artfully chaotic editing style, full of ultra-slow dissolves, double exposures and scrubbed footage playing forward and backward in time like the image is possessed, elevates Like Me to video art.
from the review by Chuck Bowen in Slate Magazine Published Jan 21
Throughout their scenes together, Timlin and Fessenden toe a supple line between honoring behavioral specificity and proffering an outward stylization that complements Mockler’s bold aesthetic. Timlin informs Kiya with a cruelty that’s puckish and understood to stem from loneliness without defanging the character. Timlin’s line readings have a deadpan poetry, and her swift and certain physicality parodies the notion of millennials believing themselves to know more than they actually do. By contrast, Fessenden radiates experience and exhaustion with disappointment. Over the years, Fessenden has evolved into a rock star of character actors, his rumbled, sexualized charisma suggesting a Jack Nicholson of contemporary American independent cinema. And Mockler gives Fessenden one of the best scenes of his career as an actor: Kiya dopes Marshall up on horse tranquilizers, inspiring him to stage a wounded soliloquy of angry and searching facial gestures. Fessenden physicalizes this man’s alienation as qualified grace.
Like Me is exhilarating because of Mockler’s willingness to deviate from his satire so as to surprise himself with seemingly spontaneous emotional textures and tangents. The film blossoms into a debauched fantasia of longing, potentially announcing the arrival of a significant new artist.
LIKE ME opens in select theaters January 26th
IFC Center • New York, NY • January 26 – February 1, 2018
Arena Cinelounge • Los Angeles, CA • January 26 – February 1, 2018
Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers • Yonkers, NY • February 2 – 3, 2018
Harkins Valley Art • Tempe, AZ • February 2 – 8, 2018
Alamo Drafthouse Omaha • Omaha, NE • February 7, 2018
“Así es ‘Most Beautiful Island’, la película ‘indie’ española que arrasa en EE UU”
– EL PAIS
“La ciudad araña”
– EL PAIS
“Ana Asensio estrena su ópera prima, ‘Most beautiful island’:
“El sexismo es una circunstancia y no la raíz del problema”
– LA VANGAURDIA
“Crítica de The Most Beautiful Island: Sorprendente Ana Asensio”
– PLAYCINE
“Ana Asensio: “Vivir en Nueva York exige un precio muy alto”
– EL MUNDO
‘Most beautiful island’: distopía a pie de calle
– EL PERIODICO
“Ana Asensio, la cineasta española más ‘indie’ estrena su premiada ópera prima”
– MARCA
La directora, guionista y actriz Ana Asensio triunfa en Estados Unidos
con su opera prima ‘Most Beautiful Island’
– CRONICAS DE LA EMIGRACION
Ana Asensio: “Nueva York cuesta, te hace sentir pequeña”
– EL PERIODICO
The Films of Larry Fessenden: Vol 2
Wendigo & The Last Winter
The Films of Larry Fessenden: Vol 1
Habit & No Telling
The Innkeepers
Limited Edition Blu-Ray
The House Of The Devil
Collector Edition Blu-Ray
WENDIGO Figures
From Glass Eye Toyz
CRUMB CATCHER Blu-Ray
From Arrow Video
BLACKOUT BLU-RAY
From Dark Sky Selects
FOXHOLE BLU-RAY
From Vinegar Syndrome
9 Tales From Beyond The Pale
on Amazon!
THE LARRY FESSENDEN COLLECTION Blu-ray
on Amazon!
BENEATH Blu-ray & DVD
on Amazon!
