I saw this movie the other week - Everything's Gone Green that is, at a preview screening in Edinburgh. They're not sure what kind of distribution it's going to get yet, but he does know it's going to open in the US in April at a number of theatres. I highly recommend it, though the proviso is probably that you are a Coupland fan. That said, I can see it working well even if you aren't. It manages to be Coupland without being so obviously Coupland, if that makes any sense.
It's Douglas Coupland's debut as a screenwriter, covering some of the usual Coupland subjects, though also seeming sharper and funnier than I consider his recent stuff to be (that said, I'm not really up to date). It made me think Microserfs, Shampoo Planet and Girlfriend in a Coma more than anything else he's done. It's a great cast, who work very well for Coupland, and is shot more than competently. The director, who we spoke to afterwards, seems to be genuinely interested in what he's doing. That may seem obvious, but there are so many films I see where they don't seem to understand the subject matter, the script, the process of making a fuck*ng film... He has plans to shoot in various genres, and within the bounds that make a genre film work, which is a promising sign.
Apparently his debut - The Dark Hours - won the audience award at last year's Dead By Dawn festival, and I can believe it if he directs other genres like he directed this. He just managed to get the feel of Coupland - lost in a city full of people, culture and marketing, as well as the loss of identity in Vancouver due to Hollywood's parisitisation for filming, while managing to make it really upbeat.
It also easily passed the Kermode laugh rating, which is that anything that makes you laugh 5 times is a comedy. I lost count by a quarter of the way through.
Anyway, I feel I owe it to the director to try and get someone to go see it, and know that there are a number of Coupland readers around here, and cineastes.
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