“GONE seldom leaves its heroine, and should be commended for trying to illustrate the isolating effect that Jill’s experience might have on a person’s psyche, even if the director’s predilection for low-angle close-ups constantly put her in a position of power. There’s a strange purity at work here, a fixed eye for vindication that almost makes GONE feel like the Ashley Judd movie that Robert Bresson never got to make (surely, this was his life’s greatest regret). Bresson, however, never made a film populated by such unrepentantly stupid characters, and he once made a film about a donkey.”
from my review of GONE for Box Office Magazine.
this is the kinda stuff that i have to scribble in my notes to endure those brutal “friday morning specials” (read: films too heinous to screen for critics). i still love you, Seyfried.
