'‘The Maiden’ Review: A Melancholic Study Teenagers in Wake
A Melancholic Study Teenagers in Wake
Something or
someone is definitely haunting the grassy Calgary ravine where much of Graham Foy’s ambitiously
But whether
the elegance of his aspirations is quite done justice by the sometimes distractingly elliptical nature
“The Maiden”
is magnificently moody, but only intermittently moving
Jiménez) hanging
out during one of those empty yet paradoxically eventful days that we all had
They talk
about nothing and everything and dare each other to board down a steep grassy hillside
They discover
a dead cat in an abandoned building site, and with the kind of grossed-out fascination
But just
when it seems there’s not much more to them than this idle boneheaded shuffling
They build
and decorate a little raft and send its corpse off down the river like in
Suddenly, we
like them, these languid, loose-limbed lost boys
DP Kelly
Jeffrey’s photography casts a dreamlike spell that makes the transition from woozy realism to
Kelly Clarkson, Kelsea Ballerini,
Carly Pearce ‘You’re Drunk’ at CMA