TIFF ‘11: Twixt review
After a decade long hiatus from filmmaking, Francis Ford Coppola has spent the last several years getting back to his roots. Inspired by his daughter Sofia, he promised he wanted to get back to smaller, personal films that he could finance independently without a studio to limit his artistic vision. And after bouncing around between studio projects in the 90’s (John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker,” the Robin Williams fantasia “Jack”) this sounded like a great idea. His first two efforts, “Youth Without Youth” and “Tetro” were both decidedly mixed affairs that received a muted reaction from critics and were completely ignored by audiences.
His latest film “Twixt” stars Val Kilmer stars as a hack horror writer who arrives in a small town and becomes entangled in a murder mystery. I was at Comic-Con where the legendary director was on hand to present some footage from the film which looked troublesomely amateur. Despite this shaky first impression I still hoped for the best when I caught the film at the World Premiere at TIFF this weekend.
Check out my review at The Playlist/IndieWIRE
