The story proper is, unfortunately, all over the map, and further hampered by the constraints of its means. But in newcomer Amy Blomquist, director Zendel has plucked a winner.
Controlled Chaos (2003)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:0
Rotten:8
Average Rating:2.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Written and directed by Azita Zendel, the former assistant to Oliver Stone, the movie is about an assistant to a famous director.
Reviews for Controlled Chaos
The only real-life situations the movie evokes vividly are the circumstances of its own production: underrehearsed actors in hastily staged scenes speaking page after page of awkward expository dialogue.
Apparently Zendel was too busy noting Stone's eccentricities to learn anything about directing.
Though professionally produced on a micro-budget, Azita Zendel's ambitious writing-directing debut is undermined by an awkward script and some very amateurish acting.
It's hard to tell whether film school grad Zendel thought she was crafting a new-millennium Sunset Boulevard, but what results is more like the cultish morass of Showgirls in its camp dramatization of a poisonous entertainment milieu.
Often bumpy, naïve and erratically acted, static just where Mr. Stone's work, whatever you may think of it, is undeniably energetic.
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