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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 17 m
Bad Fever

Summary Eddie bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene, a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotional...

Directed By: Dustin Guy Defa

Written By: Dustin Guy Defa

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 1 h 17 m

Bad Fever

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary Eddie bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene, a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotional...

Directed By: Dustin Guy Defa

Written By: Dustin Guy Defa

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25% Mixed
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50% Negative
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Jan 31, 2012
If Defa's aesthetics are mundane, his leads' performances are not, especially in the case of Audley, whose darting eyes and hushed, stuttering speech express confused longing with transfixing train-wreck magnetism.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Feb 2, 2012
Mr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 31, 2012
In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage.
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Feb 3, 2012
Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever takes mumblecore to its reductio ad absurdum, featuring a hero whose utterances border on the unintelligible.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Feb 3, 2012
Duration 1 h 17 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://badfever.com/
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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