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States Of Control (1997)

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Music video cinematographer Zack Winestine made his debut as a writer and director with this deeply psychological drama about an angst-ridden New York City woman, Lisa (Jennifer Van Dyck), who embarks on a quest to achieve an authenticity that her complacent existence lacks. An office manager for an underground Manhattan theater, Lisa feels that her life and her marriage to an impotent professor, Abel (Stephen Bogardus), are going nowhere fast. After she decides not to sleep anymore, Lisa

Oct 16, 2001

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disquieting treatment of a dissatisfied Manhattan woman

May 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

The lead performance by Jennifer Van Dyck is hypnotic and devastatingly real and would have earned an Oscar nomination had the film been backed by the kind of money that usually supports such contenders.

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Boxoffice Magazine

A yuppie in a midlife crisis alternates between repression and indulgence in new experiences. Sensual but unsympathetic.

March 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Offoffoff | Comment
Offoffoff

Even by low-budget, indie standards, this is an unusually claustrophobic, self-absorbed work whose commercial prospects are bleak.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

An astute, thought-provoking film, but the ending left me just as dissatisfied as Lisa is throughout the movie, in her journey to not follow by the rules of today's superficial society.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Comment
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The lead performance by Jennifer Van Dyck is hypnotic and devastatingly real and would have earned an Oscar nomination had the film been backed by the kind of money that usually supports such contenders.

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