REVIEW | Soft Shoe: Alex Holdridge's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss"

2
0
Votes
REVIEW | Soft Shoe: Alex Holdridge's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" Links2
GreenCine Daily found this 7/30/2008 on www.indiewire.com [flag]
by Kristi Mitsuda (July 29, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] From " Sunset Boulevard " to " Mulholland Drive " and beyond, most movies revolving around Hollywood hopefuls portray the greater Los Angeles area as a soulless cesspool into which the hordes can't help but sink. But in his Tinseltown-set feature " In Search of a Midnight Kiss ," Alex Holdridge reimagines L.A. ... [link]

Tags:

Comments

Links (2)

In Search of a Midnight Kiss.
Published 7/30/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... and beyond, most movies revolving around Hollywood hopefuls portray the greater Los Angeles area as a soulless cesspool into which the hordes can't help but sink," writes Kristi Mitsuda at indieWIRE. "But in his Tinseltown-set feature ...

Critic wrangle: "In Search of a Midnight Kiss."
Published 8/1/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... at the New York Times. At indieWIRE, Kristi Mitsuda counters that the film's hint at larger themes of isolation and technology "never amasses enough complexity, and begins to seem like just so much narrative clutter meant to lend heft to a slight story which, like the city it celebrates, conveys an aura of gritty glamour that only goes skin deep." ...