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More taboo from the director of L.I.E.

By: PETER KEOUGH

5/31/2006 11:09:49 AM

Rating: 2.5 stars

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Twelve and Holding

In 2001 Michael Cuesta wrote and directed L.I.E., his feature debut. It created a stir because of its subject matter — a sympathetic look at a pedophile — and its stylistic assurance. His new film approaches a similar topic from the opposite point of view. Pre-teen punks torch a tree house, inadvertently burning to death 12-year-old Rudy. His surviving family and friends find different ways to cope. Twin brother Jacob (Conor Donovan), a loner with a birthmark, visits the incarcerated culprits and develops an ambiguous relationship with one. His tubby chum Leonard (Jesse Camacho) decides to lose weight, to his obese mother’s outrage. And precocious and lonely Malee (Zoe Weizenbaum) develops a crush on one of her therapist mom’s patients. Each tale touches on the darkness Cuesta probed in his first film, but Anthony Cipriano’s script shies away. Nonetheless, Cuesta impresses with the performances coaxed from his young cast, and the mute eloquence with which he elicits turmoil and taboo.

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