Summer 2011. Los Angeles. After he has breakfast, Sam goes home and tears up a note that's stuck to his door. It says that he has five days to pay his rent or else. Between taking a call from his mother, smoking his morning cigarette and oggling his neighbor, Sam doesn't do much else. He's a bit of a dilettante. He notices a strange woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), swimming in his apartment's swimming pool. After she disappears
There is much going on in David Robert Mitchell’s new film “Under the silver lake,” one of the most thematically-dense feats of hardboiled storytelling of this 71st Cannes Festival. In this highly-entertaining “Lake,” to be catalogued under film noir, a tormented, and unemployed, young man, Sam (Andrew Garfield) who dreams of being famous, notices a new occupant in his L.A. apartment complex. Sam is intelligent
Combine Stephen King with David Lynch with a touch of John Carpenter and you'll get an idea of what "It follows," slated for release this March, is like. Scary just as well as moving, "It follows" is a sorta horror flick that trains the spotlight on the intimate (and intimately strange) lows and peaks of adolescence and slathers in in angst and fright. In "It follows" nothing goes as planned, but that's just kinda like adolescence, though, isn't it?