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Quiet City

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Quiet City (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 10  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 78 mins
Theatrical Release: 2007
Synopsis:
When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one conversation-filled day. [More]
When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one conversation-filled day. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg, Tucker Stone

Director: Aaron Katz
Screenwriter: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau
Producer: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
Composer: Keegan DeWitt

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Formally impressive but tedious.

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09/19/07 01:44 PM
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed.

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09/14/07 05:19 PM
Shawn Levy
Oregonian
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In place of Before Sunrise's verbal fireworks, the aptly named Quiet City offers something more like linguistic sparklers -- modest, yes, but charming all the same.

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09/01/07 03:25 AM
Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club
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Although the movie is hardly more ambitious than its young protagonists, there's a lot of value in a lazy day. Quiet City knows where to find it.

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08/31/07 02:40 PM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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A talkfest like this is ripe for disaster, but Quiet City succeeds thanks to its two leads, Erin Fisher as Jamie and Cris Lankenau as Charlie. They're attractive and likable, and they hold our interest throughout.

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08/31/07 02:39 PM
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Callow, self-centered, often infuriatingly inarticulate but filled with possibility; Katz and leads, who improvised much of their own dialogue, capture the contradictions with enough fragile charm that it's hard not to wish them well.

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08/31/07 02:37 PM
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen.

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08/30/07 03:15 AM
Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York
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A contemplative widescreen experience that views its landscape -- the borderline-industrial hipster neighborhoods of Brooklyn, N.Y. -- with painterly patience.

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08/29/07 07:06 PM
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Tender and sad, it is a fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.

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08/29/07 03:15 AM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Quiet City often attains a floating, poetic buoyancy that pulls a fast one on gravity.

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08/23/07 11:30 AM
John Anderson
Newsday
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In order for such a small film like this to work, you have to kind of fall in love with the leads, and both Fisher and Lankenau make that easy to do.

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06/30/07 03:25 AM
Don R. Lewis
Film Threat
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Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.

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06/27/07 05:46 PM
Sky Hirschkron
Stylus Magazine
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