Open Five (2010) dir: Kentucker Audley. Jake, a struggling musician, and Kentucker, a maker of “poor” films, host two Brooklyn girls in Memphis for a long weekend. “One of the Top 25 films of 2010” Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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Created by Kentucker Audley and Jake Rabinbach Starring Jake Rabinbach, Shannon Esper, Kentucker Audley, and Genevieve Angelson Shot by Joe Swanberg Additional Cinematography and Sound by David Lowery Produced by Ryan Watt and Nick Case Executive Producer Adam Hohenberg
More praise for the film:
“The most interesting thing about OPEN FIVE is how the film consciously punctuates its ‘not a movie’ moments with scenes that are perfect little instances of movie magic. There are compositions here that soak in the deep Southern landscape with the same affection that Renoir had for the 19th-century slackers and shady grove in his LE DEJEUNER SUR L’HERBE.”
- Steve Dollar, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Audley’s movie has the feeling of sketches from life — a wealth of emotion and experience emerge both from its brisk lines and from its white spaces.”
- Richard Brody, THE NEW YORKER
“Open Five” may be notable mainly for shifting the landscape of aimless, youthful contemplation from the city to the countryside, but its record of the ambivalent desires and drifting ambitions of a group of friends is artful enough to be touching as well as vague.
- A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“More focused than many of its brethren, [OPEN FIVE] reps another worthy theatrical preem for Gotham’s reRun Gastropub Theater, fast becoming the NXNW launchpad for minimalist SXSW-type fare… Thesping is faultless…”
- Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY
“Exquisitely crafted! OPEN FIVE has the epic intimacy of weekend nights that seem to stretch beyond the actual brevity of time. Its strong core cast hits all the right notes at all the right times.”
- Cullen Gallagher, HAMMER TO NAIL
“A strong, powerful, mysterious work.”
Ray Carney, Author of ‘Cassevetes on Cassevetes’
Original Post: March 30th, 2012 | Film posted August 29th
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