Rebecca Thomas‘ feature film debut is a touching and visceral journey through a young girl’s reassessment of her faith and discovery of all the secular world has to offer. Beginning on Rachel’s (the angelic Julia Garner) 15th birthday, the film documents her discovery of a mysterious cassette tape containing a song so enticing that she believes it’s the source of her subsequent pregnancy. “Pregnant by music”, Rachel escapes her her fundamentalist Mormon home to seek out the source of the tape and, on the way, meets Clyde (Rory Culkin), a delicate misfit who finds his home in their unconventional relationship.
Dayna Stear
Our first stop was Barneys on Madison Avenue. I pulled a European size 50 jacket and he could barely fit his arm through the sleeve. A slew of 52 options were so narrow in the shoulder that I feared he would blow-out the seams. At this point, a sales associate intervened and Brian explained his “disability.” After waiting twenty-minutes, the sales associate returned with a cornucopia of jackets apparently discovered in the depths of the store and whisked Brian to an alcove with a three-way mirror. Jacket after jacket looked like a wet-suit on Brian. The only options were size 54 and required the type of alterations that required the trained hands of a plastic surgeon.
April 26, 2013 | 11:19 pm