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12/06/05
Seven Year Zigzag (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 6 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 83 mins
Synopsis: A uniquely-executed autobiographical rumination, Richard Green's film is a collage of various and sundry materials including old newsreels, animation, and live action in both color and B & W film. It is also narrated entirely in rhyming couplets, and Green's is the only voice that is heard,... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Robin Banks, Caroline Davis, Leslie Macker
Reviews
1 - 12 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
To be certain, Richard Green has created an enchanting and unique way of telling a story... I just wish I could have cared more about the Richard Green it was all about.
09/25/03
Green actually makes the mix sing, and the film is genuinely absorbing.
09/25/03
Mr. Green's dewy romantic imagery, self-pitying tone and feeble grasp of the principles of poetic scansion suggest the powerful influence of Rod McKuen, a celebrated poet of the 1970's who has since fallen into disrepute.
09/25/03
Top Critic
It is spirited and heartfelt, but as [Green] meanders from college romances to corporate jobs to showbiz breaks, it's clear none of these incidents is actually worthy of big-screen attention.
09/25/03
Said ingenuity is at times recursive in its chintzy pell-mell of images and superimpositions...
09/24/03
The urgent, free flowing gimmicky rhythms of Richard Green's swing club hippie dream ultimately grow trite and tiresome by journey's end.
09/23/03
7 Year Zig Zag is experimental, more celebratory than story, and taken as such -- fun.
09/18/03
While this film is moved by rhyme and swing, it comes across as natural as a free flowing stream.
09/15/03
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