Film Source: Grasshopper Film
A fine-grained portrait of friendship, and a spiky female one at that. A thoughtful, incisive film that articulates the feeling of an intense companionship fading imperceptibly in a series of scenes over the course of a decade.
Fourteen is the elliptical fifth feature by revered critic and occasional filmmaker Dan Sallitt. Lo-fi and even lower budget, as per the writer/director/editor’s usual custom. Sallitt is known to revere the deceptively absent visual aesthetics of filmmakers such as Eric Rohmer and Hong Sang-soo and in Fourteen he uses the style effectively to flatten time as the viewer gradually perceives the cracks that develop between the two characters. The deceptive understatement of camera work and editing it also reflected in the dialog: at once casually nonchalant and screwball sharp.
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