
Redlands
Director: John Brian King Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2014
Starring: Nicole Arianna Fox, Sam Brittan, Clifford Morts
The lives of three residents of Redlands, California, intersect and ultimately collide in this claustrophobic exploration of radical creativity, sexuality and violence in America.
Vienna (Nicole Arianna Fox, America’s Next Top Model) is a young “alternative” nude model who lives with her musician boyfriend Zack (Sam Brittan) in Redlands, California – a bleak Inland Empire city sixty miles east of Los Angeles. Controlling and hypocritical, Zack uses Vienna’s earnings to further his own musical career as Vienna attempts to build a creative life of her own. Their lives are forever changed when Vienna meets Allan (Clifford Morts), a balding middle-aged amateur glamour photographer; unemployed and recently divorced, Allan’s unassuming behavior camouflages his feelings of inadequacy and his building resentment toward others.
An arthouse take on a film noir storyline with elements of black humor, Redlands breaks all the rules of traditional American indie filmmaking — a dark voyeuristic film that slowly builds to a savage denouement.