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Era$e/Rew]nd ~ Film Reviews ~ "All Over Me" (Peccadillo Pictures- 1997 95 mins)

Irfan Shah takes a 'riotous' look at new coming of age flick, 'All Over Me'. Soundtrack includes: Ani De Franco; Babes in Toyland; Cornershop; Patti Smith; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Amps; Drugstore; Sleater Kinney.

Release 08.12.09

An intimate and understated new coming of age film comes complete with the riot grrrl soundtrack of the year ..


Claude (played by Alison Folland), a quietly spoken riot grrrl, is in love with Ellen (Tara Subkoff) who is in love with the brutish Mark (Cole Hauser). Luke (Pat Briggs), a musician, befriends Claude but his homosexuality has marked him as a target.

There is an American light that suffuses the streets and shabby apartments with beautiful but faded colour. It seduces watchers into believing that they could be happy living anywhere in America just as long as the city sun fell each day on the graffiti-skin walls and formica diner-tables as it does in the movies.

All Over me Alex and Syvia Sichel
I am one of the seduced so it was a pleasure to look at the low budget snapshot of life that is Alex and Sylvia Sichel’s latest release ‘All Over Me’. It‘s the world as Nan Goldin might have interpreted it – dreamy, damaged but hopeful. Only, this world is populated by children – confused but ultimately capable teenagers all dealing with varying levels of psychic bruising and finding solace in grunge music and clumsy friendships.

The storyline of the Sichel sisters’ movie is authentically slight – after all, it doesn’t really take that much to scare, enthuse and propel us all in life. It also has a low budget feel which works in its favour. Its visual aesthetics achieve the grubby chic of an i-d magazine fashion shoot: bars glow orange, mornings are pale gold and bedrooms are believably clothes-strewn. The performances are all winning in completely different ways – Folland is likeable and naturalistic, amateurish without being clumsy or jarring; Subkoff is a miniature, coked-up Gwyneth Paltrow and Hauser is impressively hateful.


The film as a whole could be seen as a minor work – no powerhouse scenes, no really quotable lines, no unexpected twists and an amateurish quality to the production, however...


Watching this film made me realise an inherent quality to shooting on a low budget: fidelity to the moment of performance.


With money comes cameras – a scene can be shot from many different angles and a range of cuts are possible. This not only allows the director to control where we look, but it allows gaps in conversation to be cut at will thereby giving the director control over the speed and rhythm of an exchange. Depending on fewer cameras takes away the freedom to cut which in turn protects the dynamic of the original conversation – it is the characters who now retain control over the exchange. This is what happens in ‘All Over Me’ with its little gaps and pauses, its ‘ums’ and its ‘ahs’, and it suits the feel of the movie, and suits the performances given by the irresistibly gauche main characters. Anyone relating to the charming Claude, her confusion and her messy obsessions, could find solace in this film and with its characters.

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