Title: Echo Park Director: Amanda Marsalis Starring: Mamie Gummer, Tony Okungbowa, Maurice Compte, Ricky Rico, Gale Harold, Helen Slater Indie film “Echo Park” is named for the Los Angeles neighborhood where, historically, actors who can’t afford the Hollywood Hills’ rents live alongside other arty types and a cross-section of blue-collar Latino families. It also speaks, however, to a certain type of sun-drenched SoCal independent cinema inclusive of other bohemian enclaves like Silverlake — little mesmeric arthouse baubles like Ry Russo-Young’s “Nobody Walks,” Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s “Quinceañera,” Jill Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight” and more that typically assess issues of gentrification, thirtysomething ennui and/or commingled culture. Characteristically light on plot but steeped in a [ Read More ]
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- 7/13/2014
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
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