Particles of Truth
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{{Infobox film
| name = Particles of Truth
| image =
| caption =
| director = Jennifer Elster
| producer = Jennifer Elster
| writer = Jennifer Elster
| starring = Jennifer Elster
Gale Harold
| music = Mark Wike
| cinematography = Toshiro Yamaguchi
| editing = Ron Len
| distributor = Hart Sharp Video
| released = {{Film date|2003}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Particles of Truth is a 2003 low-budget independent film directed, written by and starring Jennifer Elster, with Gale Harold. The film was released on July 26, 2005 by Hart Sharp Video. It premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003.
Plot
The film follows the lives of 10 dysfunctional individuals for 48 hours before the grand opening of an art show, focusing particularly on one dysfunctional couple played by Elster and Harold.
When this couple (Lili and Morrison) kiss for the first time, Lili goes into his bathroom and has flashbacks of her mother and realizes that she is not ready for a relationship. The film concludes that only with closure of her past, can she commit to a healthy relationship in the future.
Cast
| class="wikitable"
! Actor ! Role | |
| Jennifer Elster | Lilli Black |
| Gale Harold | Morrison Wiley |
| Alan Samulski | Johnny |
| Susan Floyd | Louise |
| Michael Laurence | Charles |
| Richard Wilkinson | Will |
| Elizabeth Van Meter | Flora |
| Mark Margolis | Grandpa Black |
| Leslie Lyles | Mrs. Wiley |
| Larry Pine | Mr. Wiley |
Reception
It competed in the narrative section of the IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival. The film continued to screen at film festivals nationally and internationally during 2003 and 2004.
In 2003, it won the Austin Film Festival Jury Award for Best Feature and in 2004, it won the Best High Definition Feature Film at the HD Fest.{{cite web |url=http://www.particlesoftruth.com/festivals.html |title=Festivals |accessdate=2007-06-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701182253/http://www.particlesoftruth.com/festivals.html |archivedate=2007-07-01 }} List of Film Festivals It mostly has favorable reviews. The Los Angeles Times noted that "The images of 'Particle of Truth' are so sharp and cut so deep. It's as if its writer-producer-director Jennifer Elster made them with a scalpel.'{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-12-wk-screen12-story.html|title=The ultimate rock fan|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=10 April 2018}} Other positive comments include "standout performances...its damn fine," and "NY indie airily pulls off what Hollywood mightily strives for--believable romantic comedy".{{cite web |url=http://www.particlesoftruth.com/news.html |title=Reviews|accessdate=2007-06-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701182429/http://www.particlesoftruth.com/news.html |archivedate=2007-07-01 }} Reviews
Production notes
Viagra was misspelled intentionally for the film, this having to do with the cost of obtaining the right to use its name.Mentioned in the DVD commentary.
DVD release
Particles of Truth was released on DVD in 2005.
References
External links
- {{official website|http://www.particlesoftruth.com|Particles of Truth}}
- {{IMDb title|0320241}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|particles_of_truth|Particles of Truth}}
- {{Metacritic film|title=Particles of Truth}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701182429/http://www.particlesoftruth.com/news.html List of Reviews]
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Category:American independent films