
A powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in the U.S., 'Littlerock' is an affectingly authentic portrait of the bitter-sweet pain of young love and the cruel reality of cultural miscommunication, making it one of the most moving independent U.S. films in recent memory.... (Full plot summary below)
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A powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in the U.S., 'Littlerock' is an affectingly authentic portrait of the bitter-sweet pain of young love and the cruel reality of cultural miscommunication, making it one of the most moving independent U.S. films in recent memory.
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| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughOtt captures with subtlety, wit, and irony the points of view of both the Japanese visitors and the local yokels, sometimes by something as simple as the choice of whether or not to use subtitles. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonWriter-director Mike Ott constructs a cutesy, willfully modest and submissive cultural mash-up, and proclaims it profound, or art, merely by virtue of its construction. |
| Globe and MailJames AdamsLittlerock wins your involvement by its meandering off-handedness and refusal to play up its strangers-in-a-strange-land conceit. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseExpectations are subverted, assumptions exploded, and the meaningless nature of words is replaced by the importance of conversation |
| Film ThreatMichael NordineA restrained but visually arresting film about the various ways in which we reach out to one another, often to no avail. |
| Honolulu Star-AdvertiserBurl BurlingameA neatly plotted, observational film about being on the outside looking in, and on the inside looking out. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghOtt has explored his theme - how each person's destiny is propelled by the past but left dangling, isolated in a seemingly formless present - with great subtlety. |
| Cinema ScopeMichael SicinskiLittlerock isn't a film weighed down by symbolism, and to misconstrue it as such would divert us from its small, idiosyncratic pleasures. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesEveryday America thrown into stark relief under the stare of visitors |
| eye WEEKLYJason AndersonOtt's knack for telling observations and beguiling ambiguities make him a director to watch. |