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PRESS NOTESPlease download our Press Notes as a PDF. MOVIE STILLSA selection of stills from The Happy Poet can be downloaded here. INTERVIEWRead the Cinematical interview with director Paul Gordon here. REVIEWS!"A brilliant piece of cinema that deserves attention." Michael Moore "My favorite movie so far of this year's SXSW is a little comedy, at once wistful and wonderfully dry-witted, called THE HAPPY POET." Entertainment Weekly “A sweet, stealthy film about creating meaning in your life (and your work) in a relentlessly mercenary world. Off-handed and yet quite artfully observed, The Happy Poet's winsome deadpan offsets its skewering of class and sustainability issues, right through to a tricky ending that, like Bill himself, may not be what it seems." The Village Voice "The poet wants to be happy but doesn’t really know how to go about it. It’s a pretty good joke, and Mr. Gordon tells it with enough discipline and invention to make a significant portion of the film funny in interesting, subversive ways. A promising debut." The New York Times "This deadpan no-budget comedy, about a glumly idealistic man who decides to start a health-food stand and the complications that result, is a genuine under-theradar gem—the kind of quietly charming, profound film that creeps up on you. It’s also, as luck would have it, perfectly acted." New York Magazine "I really, truly dug it." Film Threat "The film's dry sense of humor belies sincerity, rather than the kind of ironic detachment that seems to pop up frequently in independent films." Cinematical "If SLACKER defined the shaggy eccentricities of Austin life circa the early '90s, then Gordon's similarly low-key comedy is a delightful, deadpan reappraisal of the town's prototypical charm some two decades later." Greencine Daily "The HAPPY POET is a great example of the power and value of 'small' films worthy of greater attention." Slackerwood "However relevant to real world situations, THE HAPPY POET is, at its core, a great comedy-- a very natural and realistic one at that." Smells Like Screen Spirit "...Austinite Paul Gordon has served up my favorite of SXSW in this comedy about an organic food stand that feels, well, organic." Flicksided.com |
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