WEIRDOS (2016) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Bruce McDonald
Dylan Authors, Julia Sarah Stone, Molly Parker,
Rhys Bevan-John, Allan Hawco, Gary Levert
A couple of teenagers pack their overnight bags, head out of town and hit the road hitchhiking. They're not leaving home exactly, though the boy thinks they might be. They're not really a couple, either, but they're working on that. The boy is gay but hasn't come out. The girl suspects it and wonders if that's why he keeps putting off having sex. They're smart but uncertain about how they're supposed to play the game, still trying to figure stuff out. Under the circumstances, it only makes sense that when a character appears out of the blue (or out of somewhere) to offer spectral advice, it'd be the prince of ambivalence himself, Andy Warhol. The movie's in black and white. It's well-acted, with an especially sharp performance by Julia Sarah Stone as the girl. Molly Parker appears in the middle of it as the boy's mother, who goes from eccentric to batshit crazy in a matter of minutes. That episode's intense, and feels like it belongs in another film. It was all shot in the small towns and back roads of Nova Scotia, which is light-years away from Hollywood. Sometimes that's not a bad thing.
