3 Backyards (2010)

3 Backyards: Directed by Eric Mendelsohn. With Elias Koteas, Kathryn Erbe, Edie Falco, Rachel Resheff. The story of three people from the same suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day.

“This is such a self-consciously hokey piece of u0026quot;artu0026quot; that I could hardly make myself watch it. The sad thing is the acting from almost everyone – especially Edie Falco –is top rate. The story line, the editing, the HORRIBLE u0026quot;noiru0026quot; music, the excruciatingly long and stylized camera shots, numerous sunbursts and cheap film 101 expressions are decidedly amateurish and immature. I might have concocted something like this myself when I was 20 years old and in film school, but that – like this tawdry piece of trash — would have been nothing more than a masturbatory indulgence for my own fledging ego, and neither a communicative nor powerful expression of emotive film making. Blech.”