Movie Review: ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By A.O. Scott
HOLLYWOOD---In Roberto Minervini’s “Stop the Pounding Heart,” nonprofessional actors play versions of their real-life selves. When Sara (Sara Carlson), one of 12 children in a Christian, home-schooling farm family, meets a young rodeo rider named Colby (Colby Trichell), the abashed looks and polite words they exchange suggest something stirring between them. Dating is no more a part of Sara’s life than commercial popular culture, and Colby is both too respectful and too easily distracted to pursue her with much zeal. But this is hardly a tale of forbidden love. It is, instead, an investigation of Sara’s inner life — of the state of her soul — wrapped in an exploration of her social environment. [link]
"Stop the Pounding Heart" (Opened on Friday); Directed by Roberto Minervini; director of photography, Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos; edited by Marie-Hélène Dozo; produced by Denise Lee, Luigina Smerilli and João Leite; released by Big World Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. This film is not rated.
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| Sara Carlson and Colby Trichell in “Stop the Pounding Heart.” Credit Big World Pictures |
"Stop the Pounding Heart" (Opened on Friday); Directed by Roberto Minervini; director of photography, Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos; edited by Marie-Hélène Dozo; produced by Denise Lee, Luigina Smerilli and João Leite; released by Big World Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. This film is not rated.
