Genuinely, GENUINELY blown away after seeing Peter Curtis Pardini's Man Goes On Rant tonight at Austin Film Society. Starring Brian Villalobos in a tour-de-force performance I can't even begin to wrap my head around.
A legit work of art from top to bottom. Singular in it's vision. Grand in it's ambition. And beyond scope in its humanity. It is a pitch-perfect film in almost every single way, and as far as I'm concerned, it is the de facto movie about the pandemic even though it's so, so, SO much more than that.
This is going to sound like hyperbole, but I'm being 100% honest when I say watching this movie was what it must've been like to watch Easy Rider back in the 70s. It just so completely nails what it's like to live in this current era. The anxiety. The confusion. The isolation. And despite being such a raw nerve of a film, it's also filled with a deep well of empathy and heart.
Congratulations to Peter, Brian, Akasha Villalobos and everyone else involved in the making of this movie. It's a huge achievement and I cannot wait to see what happens with it. Because SOMETHING is going to happen with it. It's just too good to ignore.
An amazing work.
