Today at the AFI Festival
Following are capsule reviews of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas: ‘Vroom’
Great Britain, 1988, 117 minutes 8:45 p.m. This is no more than a romantic trifle--a road movie gone wrong about three Lancashire misfits burning rubber and losing illusions through the British countryside--but something in director Beeban Kidron’s style and in Jim Cartwright’s springy dialogue, gives it an extra dimension. Kidron has a knowing and selective camera eye and a kind of pop lyricism; she gets inside the skin of these youthful working-class dreams: foolish and fast, taut and fragile as a bubble about to break. She’ll be heard from later on. RECOMMENDED.
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