Remembering Sex . Austin Chronicle . 03-30-98

Remembering Sex

DIRECTED BY: Julie A. Lynch

REVIEWED: 03-30-98

To be honest, I'm still not sure what the title has to do with the movie. A better suggestion: Josie Drinks, Fucks, and Paints in New York City. Certainly a more honest label for the content of this okay but troubling first film by director-screenwriter Julie Lynch. Christine Harnos gives a courageous, no-holds-barred performance as Josie, the alcoholic painter who continually gives herself away like a door prize, free to whomever is left standing at the end of the night. Her friends are no help. Jennifer also seems to have vodka for blood and can't resist a gay guy. Elaine is a staunch, frigid conservative who never can get a date. And Josie keeps violently shoving away the one guy who seems to give two shits about stopping her spiral into true insanity, a dance with death that only stops after the revelation of a "secret truth" that throws the whole film into the land of telenovelas and after-school specials. But Lynch's film reeks of well-placed intentions that get muddled in a script that hides from the very same honesty it wants to reveal as it throws out contrived explanations and recriminations that do not match the stark, naked promises made by the dark shots and stripped performances.

--Adrienne Martini

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