Michael Koresky on SAVE ME
Critic Michael Koresky reviews the new First Run Features release, SAVE ME, on indieWIRE.com:
Robert Cary’s “Save Me” is hardly the incendiary, ripped-from-the-headlines passion play that a short description of it might imply. And indeed its poster, depicting its star, Chad Allen, skull-capped and mouth slightly agape, pointing an inverted cross to his temple, revolver-style, likewise promises a scorching take-down of bullying American fundamentalism. Yet “Save Me” isn’t a teeth-bared addition to the culture wars; surprisingly docile and rigorously even-handed in its portrait of a New Mexico Christian sexual “re-education” house for men, Cary and screenwriter Robert Desiderio are not courting controversy as much as curiously surveying a state of mind.
Read the rest of Michael’s review at indieWIRE.com.
[Koresky is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot and the managing editor and staff writer of the Criterion Collection.]
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