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‘In Search of a Midnight Kiss’
What you can do with just a few thousand dollars, if you possess natural film talent like former Austinite Alex Holdridge: Create a black-and-white romantic comedy that makes Los Angeles as retro-seductive as Woody Allen’s New York City in Manhattan; launch two protagonists that one could easily detest, then draw us deeply into their brief encounter; revisit a familiar tribe of scruffy, marginal wannabes and transform them into the most important people in the universe.
The cast is ideal, but well-seasoned Scoot McNairy really settles in one’s memory. He could become an indie sensation well beyond his current status as a reliable character actor. I hadn’t until this moment made the “Sideways” connection, or absorbed the observation of the classical unities, but nobody really cares what I think about these things. Alex, you did good.
(Yes, today I finally leave my sickbed and hit the social circuit again.)
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