Bad Fever

Name: Bad Fever
Genre: Drama
Released: February 3, 2012
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 43

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Factory 25 | Release Date: February 3, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Eddie bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene, a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotionalEddie bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene, a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotional railroad tracks of a forgotten city. (Factory 25)… Expand

Director: Dustin Guy Defa

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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Nick Schager

Jan 31, 2012

If Defa's aesthetics are mundane, his leads' performances are not, especially in the case of Audley, whose darting eyes and hushed, stuttering speech express confused longing with transfixing train-wreck magnetism. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 2, 2012

Mr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Jan 31, 2012

In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Feb 3, 2012

Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever takes mumblecore to its reductio ad absurdum, featuring a hero whose utterances border on the unintelligible. Read full review

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