Goodnight, Charlene

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08/31/2020 Top notch thriller. Paced well. Characters were strong in all directions. Loved when camera shots made classic Chevy dashboard look like a spaceship. Each frame felt like south Texas after dark. See more 02/02/2019 Goodnight, Charlene is a made-to-order thriller for those who crave layer upon layer of insinuation, yet don't require that a given film must neatly gift-wrap each and every plot point in some triumphant moment of culmination. In recent years - thanks to the relentless and ultimately unsolved plot intricacies of films like Marcel Langenegger's Deception - we've let go of this prerequisite and instead have allowed ourselves to bask in a bit of unsettled mystery. Director Chris Zuhdi successfully creates such a film with Goodnight, Charlene. Three Sands is a border town. Zuhdi himself plays Charlie, an exceedingly normal and unexceptional man married to a duplicitous spouse played by Melanie San Millan, who has given her heart and body to the local barkeep. Soon, the extramarital couple decides it's time to remove Charlie from their lives and his. What ensues is a truckload of curveballs suitable to keep even the most fiendish plot twist junkie continually satiated. The movie commands constant attention because of it. There's no intermittent tuning out option provided for the viewer, as Zuhdi is here to leverage complication to his advantage in a film that is by no means lite far. When he brings us to its crescendo, we realize that what we've seen in Goodnight Charlene is a well-directed, intriguingly-lit indie that successfully navigates its own winding roadmap to deliver on the promise of a very solid thriller. See more Read all reviews

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