In their feature films, directors Josh and Ben Safdie have always walked a fine line between fact and fiction. Not quite documentaries and not quite traditional narratives, their work takes on an air of alarming spontaneity, threatening to jump off the screen at you. ...
The grass may not actually be greener on the other side, but in Demme's America, one doesn't need to feel ashamed for imagining what it might be like after all....
The beauty of Jonathan Demme is that he doesn't merely languish in the desolation of Kym. He sees her as a flawed, damaged, at times unlikable or even bad person, but in Demme's world, at the end of the day, she's still treated as though she's deserving of love despite her history....
