Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Report Readers. Special thanks go to Los Angeles
Overnight Star Ashley Park, for letting me know about the film and
the fact that it is available free to watch for Amazon Prime Members!
Every
so often a indie flick comes along with some really amazing dialogue,
that makes the viewer pay attention to detail and allows for
introspection inside the minds of the intersecting characters.
Getting right into it, Writer/Producer Guy J. Jackson really has
created a noir crime thriller. Hard to compare it to any other film,
maybe in theory to Pulp Fiction, but unlike Pulp Fiction the main
focus is not on the main criminals and the fact that Priscilla
(Arielle Brachfeld) is more forced into the stealing due to her
inability to make ends meet as an actress.
The
cool thing here is the actors all had a chance to shine and share in
the meaty dialogue. Legendary actress Sally Kirkland portrays Miss
Chantilly a woman dead set on opening a high class club in NYC, and
recruiting young waitress/actresses to staff it. Her scenes are
lavishly embellished with a side of sarcasm and crazy. Ms Kirkland
always lights up the screen. I do wish she had more screen time, but
the film had a tight running time of 93 minutes, obviously things
were cut out, but I do feel the film could have used 10 more minutes
of run time to make the characters more developed.
Ashley
Park portrays Abelie, with a quiet yet dangerous intensity. Her
character is seemingly innocent at first until we find out her true
intentions, quite ruthless. I do hope to see Ashley in more roles
like this where she has a chance to get in some intellectual
dialogue, with colorful character development
Being
that this is the first feature film from director Michael
Chrisoulakis, I was rather astonished he pulled of such a great debut
film as it is a tough road often for a director to make the jump from
short films to features. He did a great job with the actors, and
handled the copious dialogue, by allowing his actors to show their
particular strengths.
All
of the behind camera accoutrements including lighting and sound are clear
and easy to see the and hear the dialogue. Again showing the
importance of good A.D.R. (Ed note: Additional Dialogue Recording) people.
With many of the scenes shot outside, it would be very easy to
overlook the variety in volume, and thus even in bigger budget films
some of the outside dialogue can be harder to hear.
Plot
wise the story is entertaining, actually has repeat watch factor, I
do hope Amazon makes the film eventually available on Blu-Ray with
extra footage etc..., and commentary track. It would be very
interesting to hear Guy and Michael's though processes on each
character and actor portraying them.
Overall
Los Angeles Overnight is a very good film, surprisingly intellectual,
and full of witty, sometimes truculent, sordid dialogue. Although the
dialogue from actors can be a bit loquacious at times, things move
fast, and it is on to the next person dropping his or her own
ruminations in a vocal setting! Los Angeles Overnight rates a very
strong 8 out of 10, a must own!
Check out the Official Facebook Page of the film @ https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesOvernight/
Watch for new interview with star Ashley Park in the coming weeks!!! Until then please check out her older interview exclusively on Dan's Movie Report @ http://dansmoviereport.blogspot.com/2015/11/ashley-park-interview-c-2015-dans-movie.html
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