Palm Trees and Power Lines weaponizes the charms of an exquisite Jonathan Tucker for an empathetic and stark cautionary tale. chlopinions' LFF review:
Lea never wanted to dine and dash, but when you’re 17 years old and don’t have the money to pay the bills of the friends who’ve already bolted, it doesn’t seem you have much of a choice. Unfortunately, she isn’t as quick as they were, and is caught by an aggrieved diner employee. He grabs Lea, they tussle, he slaps her.
Which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem—it’s just that Tom is literally twice Lea’s age. An adult. And as their relationship progresses, and he starts systematically cutting her off from her friends and her mom , it becomes more and more clear that he’s far from the hero he first appeared.is the feature debut of Jamie Dack, adapted from her 2018 short of the same name. Although Dack takes her movie to some dark places, she takes it there slowly. Carefully.
That charm is exquisitely deployed by Tucker, whose portrayal of the predatory Tom is as thoughtful and meticulous as the film that surrounds it. It’s such a smart performance in that, as befitting the emotional split-screen, it always has to work on two layers at once: The one we see, and the one Lea does.
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