Posted AT 7:28 PM EDT on 25/03/04
Greendale
JASON ANDERSON
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Greendale
Directed by: Bernard Shakey (a.k.a. Neil Young)
Starring Sarah White, Eric Johnson and Ben Keith
Classification: PG
Rating: * * *
With its grainy images, amateurish acting and homemade sets, there's nothing slick about Neil Young's new movie. Then again, that's the beauty of it. As passionate as it is primitive, Greendale has all the brio of the two-note solos its creator plays on his guitar.
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