PASSENGER SIDE: Q&A with Matt Bissonnette
In Matt Bissonnette’s psychological comedy-drama Passenger Side, recently screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, two brothers go on a road trip throughout the Los Angeles area and the desert nearby.
Michael Brown (Adam Scott) begins his birthday with a telephone call from his estranged brother, Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), who has a long history of drug addiction. Tobey needs a ride to several places throughout town, but is initially reluctant to explain exactly where he wants to go and why. Just as reluctantly, Michael becomes Tobey’s chauffeur for the day.
What happens next is a series of vignettes featuring disparate characters in the Southern California landscape, among them a transvestite sex worker (Vitta Quinn, above), a young migrant worker who’s [...]
by Andre Soares | July 16, 2009
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Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: UNMADE BEDS, COLD SOULS, ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Unmade Beds (top); Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls (2nd from top); Autumn (2nd from bottom); ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival, Thu., June 25, highlights:
Alexis dos Santos‘ Unmade Beds (Landmark 4, 2:30 pm) chronicles the emotional, romantic, and sexual entanglements of a group of young denizens of London’s East End. In the cast: Déborah François, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, and Richard Lintern.
A second screening of Matthew Bissonnette’s Passenger Side (Landmark 8, 4:30 pm), which follows two estranged brothers — one an ex-junkie (Joel Bissonnette); the other a struggling writer (Adam Scott) — through the streets and freeways of Los Angeles and the nearby desert. Throughout it all the brothers get to know a little [...]
by Andre Soares | June 24, 2009
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Tags: Alexis Dos Santos, Cold Souls, Film Festivals, Kevin Hamedani, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival 2009, Los Angeles Screenings, Matthew Bissonnette, Passenger Side, Paul Giamatti, Sophie Barthes, Unmade Beds, ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: HUMPDAY, PASSENGER SIDE, EMBODIMENT OF EVIL
Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard in Humpday (top); Embodiment of Evil (middle); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (bottom)
A few highlights today at the Los Angeles Film Festival, currently being held (mostly) in the Westwood Village and at the Westside’s Landmark theater complex. The festival runs until June 28.
Among today’s highlights are:
Passenger Side, one of the recommendations in the L.A. Weekly, which describes the Canadian dramatic comedy as "literate, amusing and unexpectedly moving." Written and directed by Matthew Bissonnette, the film follows two brothers — struggling writer Adam Scott and ex-junkie Joel Bissonnette (Matthew’s brother) — on a road trip throughout the Los Angeles area.
Stella, about a streetwise 11-year-old girl who finds herself [...]
