6) Starlet (2012), dir. Sean Baker
Starlet masquerades as a mumblecore film, and then 30 or 40 minutes in, transmogrifies into something much, much more ambitious. Filled with a plethora of stumbling blocks (directionless youths, cute dogs, directionless youths befriending depressed old people, bingo, depressed old people losing directionless youths’ dogs), Sean Baker’s third feature hurdles all of them with incredible confidence. Also, there’s some really explicit sex. Like, really explicit.
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