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  Review by rohan ★★★

  The kind of weird I can get behind even if its more of a vibe and not so much a fully formed thought. Its real rough around the edges, like a low budget fever dream but its anchored by a couple great performances from Alicia Witt and writer/director Wendy McColm. Wish it was more say... tangible, its just a little too loose or maybe out of reach, ya know. Some of the audio mixing and ADR are astonishingly bad but Fred Melamed shows up for a bit as a little freak which was pretty cool.

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  Review by damosuzuki ★★★★

  has some cool actors in small roles. sy from a serious man. the pervy old guy from mysterious skin. i don't know their names & i can't be bothered to find out, but i know i like it whenever they show up in anything.

  i don't know if wendy mccolm is really good. but i've now seen two of her movies & i found both of them fun & interesting & very watchable. they both made me think of roy anderson & early lanthimos & david lynch. maybe even a little damon packard.

  if you were being harsh, you might say that she's doing a junior varsity take on that sort of knowingly arty style. the work of someone whose ambition might exceed her ability. that's…

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  Review by claire ★★★★★ 1

  not particularly good

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  Review by damosuzuki ★★★★½

  i know there's nothing more tired & letterboxd cliched than calling something lynchian. they should install a control here forcing users to pay a premium every time they post that in a review.

  but...if you ever find yourself wanting to be in an inland empire style atmosphere, but you don't feel like watching 3 hrs of that movie, this might be a good substitute.

  it has a theatre scene that is probably meant to evoke the crying bit from mulholland drive.

  no movie with a theremin scene can be bad.

  i don't know what filter or lighting they use to get that sickly gold/yellow 70s color, but i really like looking at it.

  alicia witt is still looking fine, even though she's meant to look a little haggard here.

  i really, really like it.

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  Review by BigJonbowski ★★★

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  Weird and often disorientating, I can definitely see why this might not be everyone's cup of tea. I think I fall somewhere in the middle though. While Fuzzy Head at times does a really good job of portraying the effects of Marla's insomnia and her break from reality, it can be a little tough to grasp what is actually going on. That's totally the point, I get that, but the deliberately unclear approach can be very challenging. Still, it's stylishly put together on a low budget and the performances from both Wendy McColm (who also wrote/directed) and Alicia Witt are very good.

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  Review by Davy ★★½

  Very very strange film & although I can't say I loved it, I also couldn't help but be transfixed.

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  Review by damosuzuki ★★★★½

  i have a crush on wendy mccolm.

  i really really like what she does. both of her movies are inscrutable & dreamlike & messy in ways i really enjoy & find satisfying.

  i like this one a lot more than birds without feathers. it feels to me like that was her warm-up routine, while this was her serious big league at bat.

  i just looked back at my first review of this. i liked it lot my first watch, definitely, but i was a little snippy in some ways. i basically called her an amateur, a wannabe lynch. i meant it in a nice way, but it was a dumb thing for me to say. particularly since this is a small film with…

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  Review by James Saenz ★★½

  i’ve followed wendy on and off ever since the a summer adventure youtube video over a decade ago. it’s been lovely watching them come into their own as a storyteller.

  the film is brilliantly composed of gorgeous shots and vibrant lighting. wendy clearly has a keen eye for engaging visuals and the power color has over a scene’s mood. the surreal and expressionistic approach to the narrative provides plenty of opportunities for wendy’s idiosyncratic tendencies to flourish, and the score is effective at heightening each scene.

  the core issues lie with the pacing of the film and the way the narrative unfolds. it’s a genuine slog at times to get through and since we know marla’s an unreliable narrator to…

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  Review by gwenmdb

  At first I thought that maybe there were interesting things happening formally, especially in the edit. But the rhythm and pace were all over the place without a cohesive arc and it become quickly apparent that there was one kind of edit happening over and over. The story was everywhere and never really anchored in reality, and the dialogue was painful.

  This movie manages to be both didactic and confusing, unfortunately.

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  Review by Alec Toombs ★½

  I admire the emotional vulnerability shown by writer/producer/director/star Wendy McColm in getting “Fuzzy Head” to the screen. No film is easy to make and I suspect this one would’ve been especially difficult. I just wish it worked for me.

  Marla (McColm) is on the run after the death of her mother (Alicia Witt). Both Marla and the authorities assume she ended her mother’s life, but who’s to be sure since Marla is an insomniac grappling with the childhood abuses she suffered at her mother’s hand.

  “Fuzzy Head” is a work of abstract filmmaking that bounces back and forth between the past and present. (Cassidy Butler plays Young Marla.) I was often as confused as Marla in regards to what was…

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  Review by Paul Perkins ½

  Genuinely don’t know how or even why I made it through this. 
  Borderline unwatchable.

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  Review by Vespera ★★★★★

  A Lynchian fever dream of a film that breaks your heart and then glues it back together piece by piece.