'Thirst Street': Film Review | Tribeca 2017
Lindsay Burdge plays an American flight attendant who plunges into an amour fou in Paris to erase the pain of her lover's suicide in Nathan Silver's '70s-style psychodrama, narrated by Anjelica Huston.
Lindsay Burdge showed a willingness to hold nothing back in her ballsy portrayal of dangerously single-minded romantic obsession in the 2013 Sundance entry A Teacher. Her character retains even fewer vestiges of dignity or rationality in Nathan Silver's Thirst Street, an idiosyncratic but distancing genre blend that folds together melodrama, suggestions of horror and a lurid fascination with sex, intoxication and despair evocative of 1970s Euro art movies. While the caustic ending might be interpreted as some kind of feminist revenge twist, the unsympathetic characters and punishing situations will likely confine this to the indie-streaming fringe.....
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