The Exploding Girl

Part of BAMcinemaFEST

Thu, Jun 25 at 6:30pm*
*Q&A with director Bradley Rust Gray and actress Zoe Kazan

Directed by Bradley Rust Gray
With Zoe Kazan, Mark Rendall, Maryann Urbano

2009, 79 min

This moving new work by Bradley Rust Gray (Salt) is a quiet masterpiece—a delicate portrait of body language and things left unsaid. Zoe Kazan plays the cherubic Ivy, a young woman spending a college break at home in Brooklyn. Throughout the week she struggles to connect with her boyfriend through awkward cell phone conversations while deepening her intimacy with childhood friend Al. Abetted by Eric Lin’s gorgeous cinematography, Gray incisively details romantic awakening not by crafting a conventional love story, but by focusing on the richness of his characters and the subtleties of emotional communication. Courtesy of Memento Films.