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Lotus Eaters

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Lotus Eaters
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2013-04-05 NY, 2013-04-12 LA
  • Running Time: 78 min.
  • Director: Alexandra McGuinness
  • Cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Benn Northover, Liam Browne, Amber Anderson, Jay Choi, Gina Bramhill, Daisy Lewis, Cynthia Fortune Ryan, Katrena Rochell
  • Writers: Alexandra McGuinness, Brendan Grant
  • Official Site: Lotus Eaters Official Site

About a third of the way through this frustrating 80-minute film, English musician Johnny Flynn, portraying a charismatic drug addict, sings an acoustic version of The Magnetic Fields song "Papa Was a Rodeo" that's so plaintive and moving that it stops the show, so to speak, and also, regrettably, underscores the show’s hollowness. Co-written and directed by newcomer Alexandra McGuinness, this beautifully photographed (by Garth Munden) black-and-white film tracks a group of London–based trust-fund twentysomethings as they meet for coffee, go to parties, puke, flirt, and talk, a lot, about how bored they are. When tragedy strikes, the group doesn't know how to deal, so they head to a country manor to dance, drink, and betray each other sexually. Lotus Eaters, which McGuinness co-wrote with Brendan Grant, is maddeningly shallow--maybe that's the point--but McGuinness does have talent. The party scenes feel organic and true, and knowing how to guide a movie audience through a crowded room is no small gift. As the daughter of U2 manager Paul McGuinness, the filmmaker probably knows a thing or two about privileged youth, but, for now at least, she appears more interested in making pretty pictures than revealing gritty truths.

Chuck Wilson
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