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SXSW ‘Lost Coast’ review

By Michael Barnes | Thursday, March 13, 2008, 09:00 PM

‘The Lost Coast’

Three stars.

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It took a lot of nerve to shoot a film about two straight friends whose adult lives are complicated by the memories of sexual encounters with each other in their youths. After all, the subject would seem to be hackneyed in the extreme. Yet the gorgeous variety of human experience allows writer/director Gabriel Fleming the opportunity to tell a subtle story set during the course of one night’s revels in the San Francisco area. Fleming, in the David Lean mode, employs images of natural and manmade beauty to amplify the aestheticized feelings of Jasper and Mark, as well as their friends Lily and Caleb. Ian Scott McGregor and Lucas Alifano are particularly affecting as the duo in question, who, through confession and acting out, resolve their “something unspoken.” The resolution is neither happy nor sad, predictable nor melodramatic.

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