2006 · drama · mumblecore
Dance Party USA
Directed by Aaron Katz1h 6m2006
Jessica and Gus, two apathetic teenagers, drift aimlessly from one day to the next until they meet each other. They make a tenuous and fleeting connection when Gus confides in Jessica about his dark past.
Our read: Dance Party USA (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · mumblecore entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / mumblecore, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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