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THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

By | January 2005

SUNDANCE WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION 2005 REVIEW! “The Forest for the Trees” is a rather accurate depiction of a character who should never be the protagonist of a movie. Even while running a short 81 minutes, the movie sticks in a groove of its character’s inability to do anything other than aggravate people and fail to do her job…

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