The new L Magazine website launched this week, and accordingly there is a wealth of new material available. In my review of Belgian director Bouli Lanners' Eldorado I discuss the film's recurring odes to Americana and Hollywood genres (buddy and road trip movies especially). Thankfully, though, Lanners avoids the simple psychological portraits of most American festival fare in favor of characters – a vintage car salesman and the recovering addict he catches robbing him – whose uneasy friendship slowly reveals the contours of injured personalities and disappointing lives. Read the whole review here.
Eldorado
The new L Magazine website launched this week, and accordingly there is a wealth of new material available. In my review of Belgian director Bouli Lanners' Eldorado I discuss the film's recurring odes to Americana and Hollywood genres (buddy and road trip movies especially). Thankfully, though, Lanners avoids the simple psychological portraits of most American festival fare in favor of characters – a vintage car salesman and the recovering addict he catches robbing him – whose uneasy friendship slowly reveals the contours of injured personalities and disappointing lives. Read the whole review here.
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