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In this road movie about unrequitable love, writer-director Craig Sclattman puts in motion a plot that sends an adolescent girl and three used-car salesmen to Texas in a Volvo wagon. Bart (Brian Brophy), for reasons that are a brilliantly confused conflation of selfishness and empathy, encourages Melissa (Kathy Morozova) to become attached to him, and when they exchange the Volvo for a red convertible the act is a perfect metaphor for their relationship—a rite of passage for both. Brophy, Morozova, and the work of directors of photography Wes Llewellyn and Bubba Bukowski share the spotlight in this astonishing fusion of stark landscape cinematography and wildly compelling close-ups, especially of Brophy as he delivers hypnotic monologues that seem to be about everything and nothing at once and that lay bare his character's internal processes without demystifying them. In a supporting role that provides perspective on Brophy's oddly self-actualized fanatic, Arthur Roberts brings stability to the volatile story; by calmly observing Bart and Melissa but not judging them, he enables us to identify with characters whose vulnerability and manipulativeness might otherwise be far too threatening. Schlattman has rarefied emotion instead of breaking it down—his characters are indelible because they retain their mystery even as they let you inside.
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