Diamond Tongues

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Diamond Tongues

2015

1h 40m

Comedy

Drama

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10 Reviews

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Edith dreams of being a successful actress, but cannot land any roles. When she can't figure out what she is doing wrong, she starts to mess everything up.

Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

Ms. Goldstein gives a performance that requires her to swing between disarming and loathsome. She demonstrates impressive skill in slowly peeling away her character's charm.

Feb 18, 2016

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Nick Prigge

Slant Magazine

Throughout, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson purposely indulge Hollywood formula only to subvert it.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 15, 2016

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

That she nonetheless emerges as all too relatable is a credit to Moondi's astute screenplay and the nerve-rattling performance by its lead performer, here making an auspicious acting debut.

Aug 12, 2015

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Kevin Jagernauth

The Playlist

Diamond Tongues is refreshing because it isn't an indictment of a demographic, or even of Edith, but is a portrait of a young woman whose ambition has curdled into something more nasty along the way.

Rated: B+

Aug 12, 2015

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David Berry

National Post

The second feature by Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson, Diamond Tongues lives in its careful attention to detail, the meticulous but breezy way it captures Edith's meandering life as much as her increasingly destructive disenchantment.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 12, 2015

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Norman Wilner

NOW Toronto

Diamond Tongues works both as a character study and an exercise in cringe comedy: you spend an hour and a half watching someone make a lot of bad choices, hoping that she'll learn from at least one of them.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 6, 2015

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Gabriel C

This is a hidden gem and a great reminder of what it is to be in your twenties before life has given you a direction. I remember so many aspiring artists when I was that age and it reminded me of so many mistakes and dead ends that most of us experience.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/28/23

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Audience Member

"Diamond Tongues" is honest personal crisis set against the backdrop of the clash between what audiences want in art and what art ought to be. Goldstein is great in this film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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yunzhi o

With Leah Fay Goldstein's sparkling performance, this film makes raw the mentalities of an ambitious actress, in dashing colors, with a flamboyant dark humor.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A silly movie about a woman that we don't care much about and her attempts to be successful in the movie industry.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Really enjoyed this funny, quirky, indie movie with a lot of interesting characters and a great soundtrack.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Edith dreams of being a successful actress, but cannot land any roles. When she can't figure out what she is doing wrong, she starts to mess everything up.

Director: Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson
Producer: Sarah Haywood, Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson, Peter Dreimanis
Screenwriter: Pavan Moondi
Production Co: Daylight On Mars Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2019
Runtime: 1h 40m

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