Paranoid Park ***
Gus Van Sant, 2008
US
@ Neptune

I thought, Yeah, Portland, Elliott Smith, of course. And then I remembered that Gus Van Sant actually propelled Smith into the spotlight by featuring him on Good Will Hunting, which is just so far removed from, say, Mala Noche, Last Days, or this (except that it's the story of one or more troubled young men) that sometimes I forget that it's all Van Sant.

I also just noticed/remembered that Casey Affleck, who I loved last year, is in Gerry, the last of Van Sant's "death" trilogy I haven't seen, so I'm pretty excited about that.

See also: IMDb | Metacritic | J. Hoberman review | Charles Mudede review