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An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 7
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Executive producers Jay-Z, Dream Hampton, and Wyatt Cenac present Terence Nance's explosively creative debut feature, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, the film documents the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Utilizing a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation, the film blurs the line between narrative,

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What saves the film-and grandly-is Nance's wildly ambitious visual imagination.

April 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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A dense, organic, dazzling and funny tapestry, making use of varied and subtly colored animation and stop-motion; candid video; playfully verbose direct address; chapters and footnotes and doodles; and suavely chosen music and sonic bridges.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: New York Times
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This musical, elliptical, personal, poetical, sensual indie produced by Jay-Z has a seductive DIY feel and a lineage that's part early Spike Lee and late Charles Bukowski.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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Overambitiousness can turn a valentine into hot air and white noise, but it can also serve as a calling card for an artist finding his pitch-and Nance is indeed an artist, pure and simple.

April 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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This brisk and self-searching, sharply intelligent and deeply vulnerable romantic comedy is a masterwork of reflexive construction.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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Experimental debut is an engaging essay film about (probably) unrequited love.

February 10, 2012 Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Chock-a-block with creativity and cleverness, but ultimately too much of muchness.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Ghetto psychobabble strictly for the attention-deficit, Jay-Z demographic.

April 24, 2013 Full Review Source: AALBC.com
AALBC.com

Incredibly heartfelt and sincere and urgent... It is the film that it is because it is sloppy and rough.

October 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

On the one hand, its multiple postmodernist levels and medium shifts make it one of the most original movies of the year. On the other, its relative lack of substance...is frustrating and causes the film to run out of juice about halfway through.

June 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Nerdist

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a serious but never somber offering from a member of the Brooklyn boheme 2.0 generation.

March 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

I doubt I'll see a more visually inventive film at this fest-or this year, that matter-but I do wish that Oversimplification were easier to connect to.

January 23, 2012 Full Review Source: AV Club
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