The Color Wheel (2012)
Directed by Alex Ross Perry
JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.
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Watching Alex Ross Perry’s mumblecore comedy The Color Wheel or Mike Cahill’s ambitious, but disappointing Another Earth in 2011 can’t really prepare you for their sophomore efforts, both of which premiered in Park City.
Perry takes an almost calculatedly severe leap from his earlier indie jabber-fests about overeducated narcissists, "Listen Up Philip" and "The Color Wheel"--but the turn toward genre, and more serious woman-driven psychodrama, is all the more curiously refreshing.
After the fantastically harsh comedies "The Color Wheel" and "Listen Up Philip," two of my favorite American indies of the new century, writer-director Alex Ross Perry edges into the terrain of the psychological thriller with "Queen of Earth."
Devoid of the dry wit of Listen Up Philip and the acerbic, aloof humor of The Color Wheel, Perry’s first foray into thrillers in Queen of Earth may look like a departure for him, but thematically he is just as attentive to character detail as in his previous films.
Last year brought the clinching argument for the case, the sprawling, Roth-indebted masterpiece Listen Up Philip , but it was three years earlier, in 2011, that the talent was resoundingly announced: That was the year of his exquisite road comedy The Color Wheel — which played at BAMcinemaFest.
Queen of Earth is the fourth film by writer-director Alex Ross Perry, whose previous movies (including The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip ) have been, by and large, about miserable men.
Writer-director Alex Ross Perry ( The Color Wheel , Listen Up Philip ) conjures such a strong atmosphere around his characters—and Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston are so powerful in the leads—that one gets sucked into their emotional conflict.