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Review of the movie Baghead at the Tribeca film festival This movie involves the get together of movie wannabe’s and possible almost has beens, on a weekend style retreat in the woods at a cottage house where they will try and mix it up and come up with some winning script. The mix is two girls and two guys, Michell and Catherine along with Matt and Chad and one of the girls Michell is somewhat younger to where she is more starting out potentially and the other has had her almost touches with the big time and still might have additional runs towards this. The overall issue is that there can't seem to complete the play or plays for the touchdown. In part this movie is stylized more like a play. What was interesting is that while waiting on a line to buy tickets to this movie, there were two movie people in front of me that I was talking to and the girl that played Michelle, an actress named Greta Gerwig stopped by the line and was talking to them and she seemed quite attractive, humorous and sharp. I also got a chance to talk with her briefly and she mentioned she was just at a diner with Mariah Carey who is also in a film in the festival. The part she plays in the movie is a bit more frilly and she doesn't seem at all like that in person, to where she is kind of this mod, below the surface retro 60’s girl that knows she attractive but exuding a degree of standoffishness waht is more whimsical rather than substantially based but she does have a genuine openness that is not be guided by fear unless it is something real to be afraid of.Seeing the actor in person, she was quite different in real life then what she was portraying in the film. In the movie, she has a blending physicality where she can swim well, hike all day and this is accompanied by an overall apparent willingness towards the physical as long as the risks are reasonable and manageable. She has kind of a subsurface guile that she can go to if necessary. In perosn the actress playing this part didn't seem at all subsurface or "out there". With nothing but woods outside, they gather for their first pow wow and you can see that there is a overall lack of confidence in some of these characters, but they still love the art and want to find some way to make it more of a success in terms of images, outreach, popularity and finance. Catherine seems a little tougher at first and slightly seems to be into a positon where she is trying maybe to hard to sell herself rather than letting things come to her to where she is where it's at. Despite her verbiage, there is a reticence to her and she maybe has slide down one or two hills that were had been climable as far as both the career and personal. In the meantime, during the day that had a nice swim in the lake with one pretty funny scene involved with that. And then when someone with a bag on their head comes into Michelles room, she at first thinks its one of them and plays into the seeming hoax but she is getting no reaction and then realizes this may not be a hoax but some real intruder with ominous intentions. She still isn't sure after the factg but no one admits to it and then the movie turns to a potential dangerous unknown out there with possible harmful intentions and who is this crazed bag head? The movie itself is a bit quirky as are the characters but you don’t want them to fall victim to whatever is out there. They are sufficiently in the middle of nowhere to make the threat of danger all the more plausible. This movie does contain some Blair Witch Project type scenes and it is fun to see the ominous side of the camera work on this film, in the sudden twists and turns into danger.
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