Gass-Donnelly tricks up this phony baloney with nervous camerawork and editing while also stranding his actors with scads of second-rate dialogue. A bad time is had by all.
This Beautiful City (2009)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:1
Rotten:5
Average Rating:3.8/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis:
Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny,...
Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony.
Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals.
Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression.
Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.
--© Official Site
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Starring: Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkins
Starring: Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkins, Stuart Hughes
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Screenwriter: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Studio: Cinema Epoch
Reviews for This Beautiful City
The only real notes of authenticity are struck by the actors, and even then, only on the distaff side.
Gass-Donnelly's over-calculated, crisis-fueled script links yuppies, crack addicts and a cop, with few signs of its origins as the writer-helmer's stage play Descent.
A sense of coherence is not helped by an arty, handheld-camera feeling.
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