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I see so many independent movies that sometimes, when an indie movie comes along that really is independent -- that is to say, when it offers up a fresh new way of seeing -- I blink twice.
Does it sound patronizing to call a slice-of-life film about teenage Bronx graffiti artists adorable? It's not meant to.
The stakes may be low, but the experience is authentic ...
The streets of New York City are alive in the SXSW hit Gimme The Loot, the endearing and charmingly unpretentious first feature from director Adam Leon.
Like the graffiti art it documents, it's a lovingly handmade affair.
Led by his two charismatic young lead actors, Adam Leon's Gimme the Loot is an almost compulsively endearing film about two tough-talking teenagers in the Bronx.
There's a certain last-act development that feels a bit forced considering this otherwise relaxed tone, but it's hard to bear a grudge when the rest of the film is pulled off with such naturalistic grace.
Gimme the Loot is a slice of lo-fi filmmaking by a promising new talent that refreshingly shifts focus onto the everyday lives of two aspirational young people from a world that's seldom given prominence in film.
Charmingly lackadaisical.
It's a simple film, but an artfully executed one, and it succeeds precisely because it demands very little from the audience.
A nose-to-the-ground portrait of two believably aspirational protagonists and their constant hustle to make good on the movie's eponymous demand.
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