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Film that keeps it in the family

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Who'd be a scriptwriter? Young film-maker John Maringouin popped down to New Orleans to see his estranged father and step-mum, all but left the camera running for 11 days and returned home with a movie. Drugs, verbal abuse, self-reflexive wit and a perfect mise en scène: the whole thing just fell into his lap.

The film's central character would seem to be the dad, Johnny Roe - a mysterious, white-trash artist, junkie and gun obsessive. Increasingly, though, it's Johnny's one-time muse, the bitter, death-obsessed (and, to be fair, cancer-ridden) Marie, who dominates. It's she who quotes lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And she who provides the terrible climax. Marie may be a whiner, but she grows on you like mould.

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Cert: NC

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