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- 2013
- Not Rated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 8 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 8 m
Summary Max, a laconic teenager, leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona.
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 8 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 8 m
Pavilion
78
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Summary Max, a laconic teenager, leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona.
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
78
88% Positive
7 Reviews
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13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
78
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The beauty of the footage is undeniable, and the aimlessness never overstays its welcome as the film documents that strange stretch in our lives when nothing seems to matter more than the present moment, suspended in a sort of idle immortality.
Unguided by obvious story signposts, you slip from image to image, pulled along by their beauty (the digital cinematography is by Chris Dapkins) and by the dreamy, leisurely rhythms of the editing (by Seth Bomse).
Throughout, the film's subjects convince us they're doing nothing more than being themselves, so much so that a cynical advisor told Sutton he should market his film as a documentary. That label would prepare potential viewers for Pavilion's lack of story, but it would make a lie of the movie's patient, finely drawn loveliness.
George Washington this isn't, but there's enough heft here that the comparison can be tastefully made.
The lack of anything resembling a narrative at times makes Pavilion feel more like a demo-reel than a movie, but the fleeting moments Sutton has captured are so vibrant that they accumulate into something that hums.
What you see is pretty much what you get. Fortunately, what we see is often vivid and lovely.
A ravishingly shot slice of teen-ness that eschews narrative altogether in favor of a moody, watchful wistfulness, this mild-mannered debut plays something like "Bestiaire" for contemporary slacker youth.
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Production Company
Van Riper Archives
Release Date Mar 1, 2013
Duration 1 h 8 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Torino Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
