Word: gomez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laws of Gravity," Somerville native Nick Gomez's first feature-length film, is a rough and tumble movie made on the streets and dominated by them...
Hand-held camera work by Jean de Segonzac combines a pitted, grungy Brooklyn background with a cast of young white ruffians. Gomez has no pretentions of grandeur, which provides "Gravity" with incredible realism, but in the end impedes its cinematic impact...
...Life in Gravity" is a series of coarse true-to-life episodes which Gomez separates by cutting to black frames. The film is characterized by loud, emotionally charged, heavily gesticulated conversations where it is often difficult to make sense of who is saying what at any given time...
...Laws of Gravity" was shot on a $38,000 budget, but Gomez is fortunate and skilled. He does not allow his budget restrictions to hurt the movie--they add a crucial element of street-wise realism...
...Laws of Gravity" is a powerful first film from a filmmaker who knows the streets, but Gomez needs to bring a subtler eye for a more comprehensive range of human experience and emotion to his next film. All this without forfeiting the rough energy, drive and quick-spiritedness of "Laws of Gravity...