Gavin Heffernan's 'Expiration' boasts a unique cinematic style and introduces an impressive new filmmaker.
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11/24/03
Expiration (2003)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:16
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.6/10
Synopsis: A botched wedding proposal between two smalltown youngsters spirals into an epic Montreal night of chaos, confusion and destiny. Part "The Wizard of Oz", part "Eyes Wide Shut", EXPIRATION stares... [More]
Starring: Janet Lane, Gavin Heffernan, Erin Simkin, Yetide Badaki
Director: Gavin Heffernan
Reviews for Expiration
The film is unjaded enough that its very guilelessness is often at least vicariously moving
01/20/04
This may be one of 'those movies' where everything happens in one single night, but it's far from formulaic.
01/02/04
...a memorable and undeniably captivating visceral experience.
01/04/04
Has the freshness of youthful exuberance on its side.
12/05/03
Does anyone have a spare career to give Gavin Heffernan?
03/11/04
Promises much for its young creator's future, even as it delivers only minor pleasures of its own.
01/11/04
Definitely recommended for the art house crowds . . .
11/27/03
Though it was made on a shoestring, Expiration offers imaginative and soulful use of digital video.
01/05/04
introduces an unpretentious filmmaker with a promising future
03/21/04
...exudes raw talent on both sides of the lens and serves as an unwitting document of the kind of purity of vision embodied by artists at the beginnings of their careers...
10/31/03
An eventful ride with a memorable gallery of characters.
01/12/04
Almost unreasonably good.
01/04/04
A solid first film that shows remarkable skill both in front of and behind the camera.
01/23/04
While I sometimes found myself scratching my head a little, Heffernan provides just enough information to keep the intrigue at a maximum.
11/05/03
Heffernan and company have crafted a film both entertaining on its surface - and possessed of a heart and soul underneath.
10/16/03
artsy fartsy to the point where even the actors' eyes seem to roll
11/02/03
Episodic film, interesting in fits and starts, but some individual pieces prove more satisfying than the film's whole
01/31/04
A student film of enormous ambition and modest attainment...precocious, perhaps, but also uncomfortably pretentious.
12/30/03
It lost me in an "all-in-one-day into night" fog of sequencing and generally unsavvy storytelling.
10/27/03
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