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Seven Year Zigzag (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 6
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: A uniquely-executed autobiographical rumination, Richard Green's film is a collage of various and sundry materials including old newsreels, animation, and live action in both color and B & W film.... A uniquely-executed autobiographical rumination, Richard Green's film is a collage of various and sundry materials including old newsreels, animation, and live action in both color and B & W film. It is also narrated entirely in rhyming couplets, and Green's is the only voice that is heard, intoning the voices of all the characters and providing a running commentary. There is a story here, however, and it is ex-hippie Green's own, recounting his early filmmaking ambitions, and his decision to join the corporate world while he worked on his screenplay. Eventually he went to London to start a successful band, and to Los Angeles to start a not-so-successful club. Among the many dreams that Green chases is also his lost love, whom he dubs only "the one who got away." A mishmash of poetry, drama, and documentary, the film carries a surprisingly strong message couched in the melange of styles and the zig-zagging plotline. The heartfelt and sincere moral to this story is that it is never a mistake to chase your dreams, and if failure ensues it is the less tragic for having tried. [More]
Starring: Robin Banks, Caroline Davis, Leslie Macker
Starring: Robin Banks, Caroline Davis, Leslie Macker
Director: Richard Green
Director: Richard Green
Producer: Richard Green, Donna Dubain
Studio: Next Step Studios
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Reviews for Seven Year Zigzag
To be certain, Richard Green has created an enchanting and unique way of telling a story... I just wish I could have cared more about the Richard Green it was all about.
Green actually makes the mix sing, and the film is genuinely absorbing.
Mr. Green's dewy romantic imagery, self-pitying tone and feeble grasp of the principles of poetic scansion suggest the powerful influence of Rod McKuen, a celebrated poet of the 1970's who has since fallen into disrepute.
It is spirited and heartfelt, but as [Green] meanders from college romances to corporate jobs to showbiz breaks, it's clear none of these incidents is actually worthy of big-screen attention.
Said ingenuity is at times recursive in its chintzy pell-mell of images and superimpositions...
The urgent, free flowing gimmicky rhythms of Richard Green's swing club hippie dream ultimately grow trite and tiresome by journey's end.
7 Year Zig Zag is experimental, more celebratory than story, and taken as such -- fun.
While this film is moved by rhyme and swing, it comes across as natural as a free flowing stream.
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