Worst Sundance Film: Sex and Self-Mutilation

[bijou]

OK, I’ve told you about some very good new films we saw at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, like “American Teen” and “The Wackness.”

But the worst film, the one that easily rivaled Alan Ball’s “Towelhead” from last fall’s Toronto Fest? “Downloading Nancy,” starring Maria Bello, Jason Patric and Rufus Sewell.

Maria, one of my favorite actresses, plays Nancy. She hires a murderous pen pal on the Internet to come and kill her. (I think it’s because she’s depressed.)

While she’s waiting to be offed by Patric, Nancy self-mutilates with a razor blade. She cuts herself all over the place. Not even her shrink, played by “Judging” Amy Brenneman, can talk her out of it. Nancy’s husband, played by British theater star Sewell, has no luck either.By the time Nancy meets up with Patric’s Louis, she’s cut herself to ribbons and bleeding all over.

When did I walk out, er, escape from the theater? At the point that Louis ties her up in bed. Bello, naked, squirms while Patric cuts her and has sex with her. You can’t imagine all the distributors and journalists I ran into in the lobby. “One woman was crying when she left,” a ticket taker told me.

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 Top night out!

[Lord Undies]

"The feel-good movie of the year!"
-The LA Times

"Not since Doris Day and Rock Hudson has the screen be so alive with romance!"
-The Boston Globe

"I saw it twice!"
-Susan Granger, Movie Talk

[asdf2231]

 



 

[Lord Undies]

 

"Wanna see me cut myself?"

[Dixie*Darling]

My gawd, what passes for entertainment these days.   

[Uhhuh35]

"The feel-good movie of the year!"
-The LA Times
"Not since Doris Day and Rock Hudson has the screen be so alive with romance!"
-The Boston Globe
"I saw it twice!"
-Susan Granger, Movie Talk

Exactly! 

[jendf]

It sounds lovely.