by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the regional indie neo-noir Thin Ice.]
After Dark, My Sweet operates in a fugue state of despair, desire and doom from its opening moments, in which images from a boxing match jut up against the sight of pugilist Kevin "Kid" Collins (Jason Patric) emerging from a rocky mountain cave to wander through an anonymous Southwestern locale, his narration a bewildering stew of context-free lamentations. With hunched shoulders, dangling arms, and a head cocked low and a little to the side in a way that—like his distant, alternately cloudy and sharp eyes—indicates something's slightly off, he drifts into a bar for a cold beer. There, he strikes up a conversation with Fay (Rachel Ward), who mocks his story about being on the lookout for a missing friend and yet, after he viciously punches out the antagonistic bartender (Rocky Giordani), is impressed enough to offer him a ride to her home, where she...
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the regional indie neo-noir Thin Ice.]
After Dark, My Sweet operates in a fugue state of despair, desire and doom from its opening moments, in which images from a boxing match jut up against the sight of pugilist Kevin "Kid" Collins (Jason Patric) emerging from a rocky mountain cave to wander through an anonymous Southwestern locale, his narration a bewildering stew of context-free lamentations. With hunched shoulders, dangling arms, and a head cocked low and a little to the side in a way that—like his distant, alternately cloudy and sharp eyes—indicates something's slightly off, he drifts into a bar for a cold beer. There, he strikes up a conversation with Fay (Rachel Ward), who mocks his story about being on the lookout for a missing friend and yet, after he viciously punches out the antagonistic bartender (Rocky Giordani), is impressed enough to offer him a ride to her home, where she...
- 2/17/2012
- GreenCine Daily
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