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We Have Met The Anomie, And It Is Us: 'Golden Exits'

Young, directionless Brooklynites have their lives (slightly) complicated by the arrival of a beautiful young woman (Emily Browning) in Alex Ross Perry's "precociously fretful" new film.
Naomi (Emily Browning) plays an assistant living in Brooklyn in <em>Golden Exits, </em>a film exploring the disappointments and desires of both the young and the old.

With films like , and , writer-director Alex Ross Perry swiftly established himself as indie-cinema's premier misanthrope, as if the literate class of Woody Allen movies had been body-snatched by caustic malcontents of John Cassavetes movies. Shot in 16mm, mostly in interiors free of electronic distraction, Perry's films are defiantly analog in their four-walled intensity, committed to unpacking the restive desires of characters who act on impulse and often look ugly in the process. They have movie for Disney, his fans chuckled at the irony.)

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