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Southland Tales

4.9

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Original title

Southland Tales

Year

2006

Running time

145 min.

Country

United States

Director

Richard Kelly

Screenwriter

Richard Kelly

Cast

Music

Moby

Cinematography

Steven Poster

Producer

Universal Pictures, Cherry Road Films, Darko Entertainment, Eden Roc Productions, MHF Zweite Academy Film, Persistent Entertainment, Academy Film, Destination Films, Inferno Distribution, Wild Bunch

Genre

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Comedy | Disaster Film. Dystopia

Synopsis

Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Awards: 2006: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Critics' reviews

"If a more incoherent and self-indulgent movie has been released so far this century, I'm not aware of it"

Lou Lumenick: New York Post
"A mess, and that's really a shame."

Ruthe Stein: SFGATE
"Love it or laugh at it, you will gaze on Southland Tales with awe"

David Edelstein: Vulture
"Exasperatingly convoluted, self-amused and politically sophomoric"

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"Dizzyingly incoherent and subversively surreal, this sophomore effort from the man who made the great, strange 'Donnie Darko' is certain to have its fans. I'm not going to be one of them."

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer
Rarely has a picture been so self-consciously designed to be a culturally meaningful touchstone, and fallen so woefully short, as Southland Tales.

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"Funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America and its discontents"

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"A slow-paced, bloated and self-indulgent picture that combines science fiction, sophomoric humor and grisly violence soaked in a music-video sensibility"

Ray Bennett: The Hollywood Reporter

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Southland Tales

2006

Richard Kelly

4.9

(1,292)