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Electrick Children is a 2012 film written and directed by Rebecca Thomas and starring Julia Garner and Rory Culkin.

Plot

The plot concerns 15-year-old Rachel McKnight (Garner), a member of a fundementalist Christian community in Utah, who, listening to a cassette recorder for the first time, hears a song by an obscure rock band. When she finds herself to be pregnant, she is convinced that she has conceived miraculously, like the Virgin Mary, through the medium of the cassette. Rather than undergo a shotgun marriage arranged by her father Paul (Billy Zane), she escapes to the city, pusued by her brother Mr. Will (Liam Aiken), where she falls in with a group of skaters. She becomes romantically involved with one of these, Clyde (Culkin). Remembering one of her mother's bedtime stories, she impulsively follows a red Mustang and discovers the man who recorded the tape, who is in fact her biological father. Finally, she decides to return to her community. As she is about to be wed, her biological father, Mr. Will and Clyde pull up in front of the church in the red Mustang and rescue her.

Release

The film was first screened in Europe at the Berlin International Film Festival on 10 February 2012, in the US at the South by Southwest Film Festival on 15 March 2012, and in South America at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in April, 2012 It went on general release on March 8, 2013.

Reception

Stephen Holden of the New York Times said the film was "neither comedy nor drama nor satire but a surreal mélange infused with magical realism." He criticised its lack of narrative continuity but said "the movie’s underlying sweetness leaves a residual glow." Catherine Shoard of The Guardian said the film was "so deftly done it's three parts enchantment to one part irritation." She called Garner's performance "magnetic", and said that McKnight's community was convincingly portrayed. The film received an 85% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with seventeen "fresh" reviews out of a total of twenty. It got a metascore of 60 on Metacritic, based on nine reviews—two positive and seven mixed.

Awards and nominations

Electrick Children gained its director, Rebecca Thomas—at that time a fourth-year student at Columbia University School of the Arts Film School—a nomination for the "Someone to Watch" award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. It won her the FIPRESCI Award at the 2012 International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Plus Camera in Kraków, Poland.

References

1. ^ Michael Tully, Electrick Children — A Hammer To Nail Review, Filmmaker, March 7, 2013
2. Todd Gilchrist, SXSW: 'Electrick Children' offers a charge that's more promising than profound, Hitflix.com, March 12, 2012
3. BAFICI 2012, Mubi.com
4. Stephen Holden, "Young, Pregnant, Gone to Vegas: ‘Electrick Children,’ Directed by Rebecca Thomas", New York Times, March 7, 2013.
5. Catherine Shoard, "Electrick Children – review", The Guardian, July 12, 2012
6. Electrick Children, Rotten Tomatoes
7. Electrick Children, Metacritic
8. 2013 Spirit Award Nominees Announced, Film Independent, November 27, 2012
9. Columbia Continues Streak at Spirit Awards, Columbia University, November 29, 2012
10. 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Plus Camera, Offpluscamera.com

External links

• Official Site
• Electrick Children at IMDb

• Pending AfC submissions
• Pending AfC submissions in article space
• AfC submissions by date/09 March 2014
• AfC submissions by date/18 November 2013
• AfC submissions by date/03 February 2013
• AfC submissions by date/30 March 2014
• 2013 films