Getting bored from the miserable and boring life she has with her protective family, Star, a young beautiful teenager girl, has run away from her family, the thing that turns down her life, especially upon meeting Jake, a successful, but cunning sales manager with whom she spends a very nice time.
At nearly three hours, "American Honey" is the most indulgent movie of the year, and the one in most need of a serious trim. It makes its point early on and then keeps repeating it until the honey turns sour.
Though it may come off as Malick for hip-hop-loving millennials, Arnold's film is a surprisingly poignant experience, a sprawling yet intimate odyssey through Middle America, and a bracingly honest portrait of emerging adulthood.
In the hands of British writer/director Andrea Arnold, one of the most talented women making movies today, the film has a lusty primal quality that is threatening and hard to resist.
It sounds like a mess, yet this film is anything but -- Star's journey, hustling across an America split by the rich-poor divide, is the most lyrical trip you will experience in ages.
Too long by at least an hour, American Honey is a movie that would have had more to say if it said less. It is ultimately like a Jim Jarmusch movie without a sense of humour.
The film enjoys its moments of sweet hopelessness but at the end, in a sane way, this is a story of youthful hope. The US needs that as much as we all do.
A quirky road movie that explores the vast areas of unemployment and poverty in midwest US, precisely those regions that felt disfavored and ignored by Washington's power elites. [Full review in Spanish]
