Bad Fever (2012)
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50% of critics liked it
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40% of users liked it
(419 ratings)
Alternatively quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man's broken American dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand. Eddie (Kentucker Audley) bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene… More Alternatively quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man's broken American dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand. Eddie (Kentucker Audley) bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene (Eleonore Hendricks), a manipulating drifter who videotapes their fleeting moments together. To express his true feelings for her, he painstakingly orchestrates his debut stand-up performance at the local comedy club. Here is a portrait of two lonely trains passing each other by on the emotional railroad tracks of a forgotten city. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Dustin Guy Defa
- Written By
- Dustin Guy Defa
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 3, 2012 Limited
Critic Reviews
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Heavy on the awkward silences and joggling, invasive close-ups.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
As the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation.
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Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Audley, a helmer in his own right, somehow infuses Eddie with a compelling presence that exerts an offbeat authenticity.
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Nick Schager, Village Voice
From its opening white-letters-on-red-background credit sequence to its diligent focus on a wayward loner drifting about the outskirts of society and sanity, Bad Fever has the empathetic soul of '70s American filmmaking.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker
Defa exerts delicate control over his incendiary material and evokes emotional terrors with a sympathetic directness; his raw-toned drama is quietly hectic and brutally poignant.
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