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- 2015
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 32 m
Summary An ex-con (Chris Zylka) falls for a girl-next-door-turned-stripper in the heart of the South. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Hank Bedford
Written By: Hank Bedford
- 2015
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 1 h 32 m
Dixieland
49
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Summary An ex-con (Chris Zylka) falls for a girl-next-door-turned-stripper in the heart of the South. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Hank Bedford
Written By: Hank Bedford
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Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
49
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Compelling as Zylka and Keough may be — and we're definitely rooting for their well-etched characters — Bedford too often plies a kind of woeful wooziness here when a more propulsive approach is in order.
A thick sheen of luscious lens flares and Terrence Malick–like poetic lulls feel like icing on an undercooked mud pie—Bedford’s script deserves a stronger engagement with its characters’ desperation. Instead they collide in a clichéd ending that feels padded.
This is well-worn territory, and though the two leads are very good, the romance that is supposed to drive the story isn’t particularly well delineated.
Low on ideas and high on atmosphere, Dixieland is a promising debut, but it likely won’t find you overwhelmingly writing back home about it.
Writer-director Hank Bedford delivers some tactile, human details.... But the film is slow and often agonizingly predictable.
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Awards
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Oldenburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
