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    New York Post
    Jan 22 2011


    Sundance 2011: "HERE"


    3:27 AM, January 22, 2011 é By KYLE SMITH

    Can words describe the anti-scintillation that is "HERE" -- not
    "Here," that wouldn't be artsy enough -- the Sundance non-favorite
    about map-making in Armenia? I'll try.

    The fussbudget actor Ben Foster plays an American in Armenia who, for
    two grueling hours, wanders the desolate land surveying, entering
    data, and occasionally sending an email. Long stretches go by without
    dialogue. At one point he drinks strong vodka. He meets an Armenian
    hottie. After 45 minutes of being dull, they have sex. They wander
    around. At the beginning, and every two hours or so, a punishingly
    pretentious monologue is spoken by Foster as unsettled images play
    across the screen. Amoeba carnival? Maybe. Pink Floyd light show?
    Almost. Student-film freakiness? Definitely. "Truth is conjecture,"
    Foster says, reading off immensely meaningless words by
    writer-director Braden King and co-writer Dani Valent. Deep, man.
    Foster and the Armenian chick trade banal dialogue. They make out a
    little. They wander some more. Time for another spacey monologue: "The
    astronomer carries a veil of pure darkness." And so on for several
    more minutes. Wow.

    If I hadn't had 350 milligrams of caffeine juking through my veins I
    would have taken a well-earned nap. Obviously I would have walked out
    as soon as possible, but I was landlocked in the middle of a row at
    the Library Theater. So I waited, a prisoner of cinema, for the film
    to be over so I could reclaim my life. Foster gets an email from his
    bosses in California, warning that his surveying stinks. He gets an
    email from HQ: this project, he is told, is a "near-total loss." Near?

    http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/sundance_here_WGd1Mm3khQXYFzTkjMajwL




    From: A. Papazian
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