A contemplative widescreen experience that views its landscape -- the borderline-industrial hipster neighborhoods of Brooklyn, N.Y. -- with painterly patience.
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08/29/07
Quiet City (2007)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Synopsis: When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one... [More]
Starring: Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg
Director: Aaron Katz
Reviews for Quiet City
1 - 17 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Quiet City may be modest in budget and muted in its ambitions, but for anyone who imagines that truly independent American cinema is dead, this most chaste of romances is a quiet film worth shouting about.
07/22/08
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07/24/08
It's a wonderfully goofy movie that was a fun watch.
04/15/09
In order for such a small film like this to work, you have to kind of fall in love with the leads, and both Fisher and Lankenau make that easy to do.
06/30/07
Although the movie is hardly more ambitious than its young protagonists, there's a lot of value in a lazy day. Quiet City knows where to find it.
08/31/07
Quiet City often attains a floating, poetic buoyancy that pulls a fast one on gravity.
08/23/07
Callow, self-centered, often infuriatingly inarticulate but filled with possibility; Katz and leads, who improvised much of their own dialogue, capture the contradictions with enough fragile charm that it's hard not to wish them well.
08/31/07
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09/12/08
In place of Before Sunrise's verbal fireworks, the aptly named Quiet City offers something more like linguistic sparklers -- modest, yes, but charming all the same.
09/01/07
Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed.
09/14/07
Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.
06/27/07
Tender and sad, it is a fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.
08/29/07
Top CriticA talkfest like this is ripe for disaster, but Quiet City succeeds thanks to its two leads, Erin Fisher as Jamie and Cris Lankenau as Charlie. They're attractive and likable, and they hold our interest throughout.
08/31/07
Formally impressive but tedious.
09/19/07
Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen.
08/30/07
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10/18/08
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