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- 2013
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 31 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 31 m
Summary 17-year-old Jackie is distressed when her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares to leave for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie struggles with the intrusion of reality on her idyllic world.
Directed By: Dan Sallitt
Written By: Dan Sallitt
- 2013
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 31 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 31 m
The Unspeakable Act
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Summary 17-year-old Jackie is distressed when her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares to leave for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie struggles with the intrusion of reality on her idyllic world.
Directed By: Dan Sallitt
Written By: Dan Sallitt
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
76
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Perverse, funny, and ultimately profound.
Mr. Sallitt lays down a customarily restrained mode of acting (the kind that somehow seems less flat and more natural in French cinema), but it’s in the service of a rare lucidity about feeling.
Writer-director Dan Sallitt's fourth feature moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down.
There's more than enough going on here to compensate for the script's occasional tendency towards on-the-nose exposition of feelings, and evasive contrivances.
You couldn’t accuse the cast members of being good actors, yet this young performer knows exactly how to express Jackie’s confusion, vulnerability, instability and longing without any sense of judgment; the film would simply not work without her, no matter how sensitively Sallitt handles such provocative, ick-producing bait.
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Production Company
Static Prods.
Release Date Mar 1, 2013
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
