Frownland

Ronald Bronstein describes his extraordinary film as "a brown tomato lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen." Frownland has garnered passionate raves and scathing denunciation. Screenings have ended in screaming matches. None of Frownland's reputation does justice to its savage dark humor, emotional heft and stylistic audacity. Frownland is a character study of Keith, a neurotic, manipulative, unlovable New Yorker. Keith lurches his way through an uncaring city, attempting to aid a suicidal friend, evict his roommate, and attain some self-respect. An apoplectic seizure of blind rage, sorrow and bleating humor, Frownland is "personal cinema at its most uncompromising and fierce." (New York Times)