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Critics Consensus: Thirst Street plunges viewers into one woman's harrowing ordeal -- a journey made all the more gripping thanks to Lindsay Burdge's central performance.
Critic Consensus: Thirst Street plunges viewers into one woman's harrowing ordeal -- a journey made all the more gripping thanks to Lindsay Burdge's central performance.
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (5)
So no, it's not a sly, dark, romantic deadpan comedy after all. It's dark all right - but it looks more like a train than a light at the end of the tunnel.
Normally, I'm eager for a story about a woman humiliating herself for love, but the tone of this fanciful film at times struck me as all wrong.
There's not much in the way of bruising insight into the makeup of a deteriorating personality, but for a compact spin through well-trod fields of lustful, sad-mad blindness, "Thirst Street" has its share of disreputably perverse pleasures.
Lindsay Burdge's intrepid performance as a woman unable to let go of a one-night stand galvanizes Nathan Silver's sharply stylized character study.
Burdge holds the picture together, playing a character who walks a fine line between being sympathetically damaged and terrifyingly loony.
The result is a slow-motion car crash that you intimately experience from both in and outside the car. There's just enough distance to allow for wisdom but not enough so as not to feel the impact.
A psychedelic 70s exploitation look and feel gives Thirst Street a dreamy Euro-Trash quality.
It may be discomforting, but there's no denying that it's persuasive, authentic, and remarkably true.
Few filmmakers are capable of imagining anything worse than supernatural horror or overly conventional heartbreak and Silver ends up creating something in between those worlds.
Somehow, her acting combines with cinematography straight from an artsy 1970s porno and a soundtrack of woozy love songs to create an expressionist portrait of overwhelming loneliness.
Thirst Street is a corrective to the scores of movies - American and otherwise - that portray unrequited romantic obsession as something other than what it really is: a slippery slope that's all but guaranteed to end with someone getting hurt.
Thirst Street deserves your attention thanks to its vividly assured visuals.
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