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Post-Fantasia Twitch Review

Submitted by Marya Murphy on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:26pm.
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Twitch has published three reviews of Canary, each a glowing take on the film, but the latest takes into account the audience reaction at Fantasia.

I've attended Fantasia for five years now, and CANARY is the only film I've ever seen that was met at the end with resounding silence.

It's interesting to see how post-public-screening reviews differ from those written by critics who have watched the film on DVD.

Read Lauren Baggett's Twitch review here:

http://twitchfilm.net/reviews/2009/07/fantasia-09-review-canary.php

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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