TriBeCa: Salon appointment yields dark highlights

Indie film is rarely a land of cotton candy and peppermint rainbows, but a report by Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir suggests this year’s crop of TriBeCa indies are particulalry caliginous:

Viz:

– Emmanuelle Bercot‘s “Backstage”: “trashy but highly absorbing

– Matt Williams‘ “Walker Payne”: “redeemed from total triviality, in fact, by its darkness.”

– “Civic Duty,” a claustrophobic, low-budget thriller starring Peter Krause: “a gloomy, intense and effective little picture, without being the least bit original.”

Salon.com‘s O’Hehir continues, “Stay tuned: I’ll be back with many more films, though not necessarily more cheerful ones: a controversial documentary about Golden Gate Bridge suicides, a tale of death row in Iran, a story about an all-night bender in Dallas, multiple visions of the Iraq war, how Colombia’s drug kings brought vice to Miami and much, much more.”

Much,