Formally impressive but tedious.
Comment
09/19/07
Quiet City (2007)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 10 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Runtime: 78 mins
Synopsis: When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one conversation-filled day. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg, Tucker Stone
Director: Aaron Katz
Screenwriter: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau
Producer: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
Composer: Keegan DeWitt
Screenwriter: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau
Producer: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
Composer: Keegan DeWitt
Reviews
1 - 12 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed.
09/14/07
In place of Before Sunrise's verbal fireworks, the aptly named Quiet City offers something more like linguistic sparklers -- modest, yes, but charming all the same.
09/01/07
Although the movie is hardly more ambitious than its young protagonists, there's a lot of value in a lazy day. Quiet City knows where to find it.
08/31/07
A talkfest like this is ripe for disaster, but Quiet City succeeds thanks to its two leads, Erin Fisher as Jamie and Cris Lankenau as Charlie. They're attractive and likable, and they hold our interest throughout.
08/31/07
Callow, self-centered, often infuriatingly inarticulate but filled with possibility; Katz and leads, who improvised much of their own dialogue, capture the contradictions with enough fragile charm that it's hard not to wish them well.
08/31/07
Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen.
08/30/07
A contemplative widescreen experience that views its landscape -- the borderline-industrial hipster neighborhoods of Brooklyn, N.Y. -- with painterly patience.
08/29/07
Top Critic
Quiet City often attains a floating, poetic buoyancy that pulls a fast one on gravity.
08/23/07
In order for such a small film like this to work, you have to kind of fall in love with the leads, and both Fisher and Lankenau make that easy to do.
06/30/07
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