Sun Don't Shine

MOVIE #1,296 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.26.23 Clocking in south of 80 minutes, it's amazing what a slog this still is. I really hate to shit on low budget indies like this, but I mostly felt annoyed the whole time. The film’s constant use of conversational voiceover in place of actual conversations might have been a device utilized in the wake of technical shortcomings (?), but it doesn't work. And the one-note (manic!) performances of both the lead characters leaves no room to breathe (Kentucker Audley and Kate Lyn Sheil, whom I think are both good actors that have done work I've enjoyed). The fevered pace in and of itself isn’t a bad thing: I simply found no in-road to connect to these people or this story. It all adds up to a sorta post-mumblecore thriller that is not thrilling and goes nowhere (even if the latter is kind of the point). FWIW, I checked this out solely out of curiosity in advance of screening She Dies Tomorrow, writer-director Amy Seimetz’s follow-up to this, which was her debut.

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Sun Don't Shine is a 2012 independent thriller film written and directed by Amy Seimetz and starring Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley. It first premiered on March 10, 2012 at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won a special jury award. It was released on March 10, 2012.