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- 2015
- Unrated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 42 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 42 m
Summary Two brothers flee arrest for the accidental killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the shore.
Directed By: Andrew T. Betzer
Written By: Andrew T. Betzer
- 2015
- Unrated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 42 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Factory 25
- 1 h 42 m
Young Bodies Heal Quickly
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Summary Two brothers flee arrest for the accidental killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the shore.
Directed By: Andrew T. Betzer
Written By: Andrew T. Betzer
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Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
64
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly is a haunting film, mostly because the title remains forever in doubt.
Some of the deadpan moments and more fraught exchanges don’t really come off. But all in all, it’s one curious, and furious, escapade.
Even in its longueurs Young Bodies yields beauty and surprise, and there are inklings of some grand conception, even among scenes that feel haphazardly chosen.
Betzer’s view of the family’s pathologies goes far beyond troubled nature and lack of nurture to probe haunted American landscapes. Violence and tenderness, piety and crime unite in a terrifying tangle of stunted emotions.
Betzer's title suggests a hardy spirit and the resilience of childhood; the story, which unfolds in elliptical but often intriguing chapters, indicates the healing might be a little more complicated and difficult.
Its lack of dramatic specificity places it in a precarious middle ground between exacting character study and ethereal parable.
One part inspiration to two parts exasperation, Andrew T. Betzer’s debut feature, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, is an initially arresting road trip for some off-the-wall characters that takes its sweet time going nowhere in particular.
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