Dirty Girl – 2 1/2 Buckets
October 7, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
My review of Abe Sylvia’s Dirty Girl, starring the terrific Juno Temple in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink performance, is now available to read over at The Daily Trojan. Here is a preview, followed by a link to the full piece:
Abe Sylvia’s debut feature, Dirty Girl, could have easily turned out to be one of the worst films of the year. It is cliché-ridden, both in terms of its characters and its plot, and is as thematically and stylistically haphazard as movies come.
But with Juno Temple, destined to be Hollywood’s next it-girl, and promising newcomer Jeremy Dozier breathing life into the lead characters, Sylvia’s otherwise hackneyed film becomes tolerable, even engaging. Dirty Girl stands as a testament to adept acting transcending mediocre writing and direction.
Read on at the Daily Trojan website (link will open in a new window).