Kissing on the Mouth

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Audience Rating: (1) login to rate this Embed		Directed by Joe Swanberg Written by Joe Swanberg Kris Williams Kate Winterich Kevin Pittman Produced by Joe Swanberg Genre Drama Runtime: 78 min Release Date: March 2008 Advisory: Nudity, adult subject matter Filmmaker's Website Send to Friends URL:
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Plot Outline

A confrontational and startling film that pulls out all the stops in the way it explores issues of sex and infidelity within post-college relationships.

Ellen is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend and trying to ignore the fact that he’s looking for more than just sex. Her roommate, Patrick, isn’t helping matters with his secretive and jealous behavior. The small cast served as the only crew on this intimate, often humorous film featuring frank dialogue, explicit sex, and real interviews with recent college graduates.

Reviews
"[T]his is not only an intelligent and honest film, it's creative and fairly groundbreaking." Don R. Lewis, Film Threat

"This is probably the most important film about a young generation since 'Slacker.'" File Thirteen

"This film is everything that Larry Clark's films aren't: explicit, but honest and nonexploitative" - Ain't It Cool News

"A quirky, definitely sexy movie with an arresting performance from newcomer Kate Winterich" - Gerald Peary, The Boston Phoenix

Filmmaker Notes

The production of this film, and now the effort to present it to an audience, has been a constant process of overcoming our fears. We let our guard down, and took our clothes off, in an effort to accurately represent the struggle of young people, people our age, to gain distance from their parents and find love with each other. It was important to us to present realistic images of ourselves, as we are frustrated with the current representations of our generation. I set up each scene with the maximum potential for error, knowing that we could only make an interesting and truthful film if it was full of accidents. I promised everyone it would be OK, and they trusted me. That trust is the only reason we were able to accomplish anything.

-Joe Swanberg

Castlist
Kate Winterich - Ellen
Joe Swanberg - Patrick
Kevin Pittman - Chris Bucket
Kris Williams - Laura

Cinematographers
Joe Swanberg
Kris Williams
Kate Winterich
Kevin Pittman

Screenings
SXSW Film Festival
The World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Chicago International Film Festival
Northampton Independent Film Festival
The Ground Floor
Facets, Chicago
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
John Hopkins Film Festival
The Alamo Drafthouse