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The Oregonian
A young woman from Oregon who seeks to escape a stormy past crashes her car in the middle of a forest. Disoriented, covered in her own blood, she starts looking for a good soul that may get her out of there. She then discovers a world of nightmare in which all traces of rationality seem to have been annihilated.
Welcome to the world of Calvin Reeder! A dangerously destabilizing world, dusty, filled with utterly sick characters, folk guitars, flannel shirts, piña colada, all drenched in an oppressive atmosphere comparable to no other. If you cannot stand the hermeticism of David Lynch's universe, then The Oregonian is not for you. For the others, his vision is akin to a breathtaking 80 minute bad trip inside a perverse alteration of the Twin Peaks forest. Supported by rough and grainy images, as well as the outstanding performance of Lindsay Pulsipher (True Blood), Calvin Reeder's film is the kind of cinematic experience that can only be made once every fifteen years, the kind of movie that would have been a hit as a midnight movie on 42nd Street in New York after El Topo and Eraserhead. An atmospheric movie, practically devoid of any dialogue but full of memorable images, The Oregonian is building a nice reputation for itself since its well received premiere at the latest Sundance Film Festival.
Calvin Reeder: after a first feature (Jerkbeast) with his buddy Brady Hall in 2005, he directed several shorts that leaned toward the bizarre including Little Farm(2006), The Rambler (2008) and The Snake Mountain Colada (2009) that foreshadow the universe of The Oregonian. He also acts at times, we have seen him in the short Je dis non, Ali, screened at the LUFF in 2009. He is currently working on an adapting The Rambler into a feature film.
Screening(s)
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Salle Paderewski 20 Oct 2011 18:30
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Cinématographe 22 Oct 2011 16:00