"My friend George said that he was gonna live to be 100 years old. He said - He said that he was going to be the president of the United States. I wanted to see him lead a parade and wave a flag on the Fourth of July. He just wanted greatness."Director: David Gordon Green
Writer: David Gordon Green
Starring: Donald Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski
George Washington was low budget, eerie, and a full-blown aesthetic buffet to the eyes. I had mixed feelings at first, as did those who watched it with me. It's definitely grown on me though. In interviews the director explained that in making the movie fresh out of film school he wanted to create the opposite of everything he had learned in Los Angeles, everything he had learned from the 'business'. He has certainly succeeded in that. The film is beautiful (cinematography is out of this world...filmed in Winston-Salem and Spencer, North Carolina), startling, at times very funny, but ultimately just very different.
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