A lot happens during a 24-hour road trip in Virginia Minnesota — too much, to be sure. Aiming for picaresque, the coming-of-age story opens in a promisingly imaginative vein but soon becomes overloaded with incident, not to mention genres and moods. The tonal shifts among mystery, folklore, melodrama and satire are neither smooth nor productively rough, and the narrative core remains unclear, lost amid the surfeit of disconnected moving parts.
But writer-director Daniel Stine and cinematographer Pedro Ciampolini use northern Midwestern locations that are seldom glimpsed on the big screen, building an evocative sense of place. And, despite the problematic...
But writer-director Daniel Stine and cinematographer Pedro Ciampolini use northern Midwestern locations that are seldom glimpsed on the big screen, building an evocative sense of place. And, despite the problematic...
- 3/4/2018
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Harold Perrineau’s daughter, Aurora Perrineau, has booked a starring role in writer/director Daniel Stine’s feature film debut, a coming-of-age drama titled “Virginia, Minnesota.” To be produced by Rushaway Pictures, the project centers on two young women torn apart by a childhood tragedy,… Continue Reading →...
- 8/12/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
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