Several interconnected tales focusing on addiction and efforts to get better.
Discovering films like this is why I go to festivals like Tribeca and just jump in. This would never have been on my radar if someone like the programmers at Tribeca didn't choose it.
Beautifully acted by a cast of largely un known faces, COTTON FEVER shines because we are not pulled out of the tale by famous faces. The cast sells their stories and we are moved by each of them.
Credit writer and director Daniel Blake Schwartz for turning his tales of addiction and recovery into a fist to the face film. Gloriously free of Hollywood bullshit the film is full of characters and situations that very well may echo the stories of the people you know and love. There doesn't seem to be a false note anywhere in the film.
If I was to quibble I would say that the run time is too brief, I'd have liked a bit more time with some of the characters. On the other hand the 89 minute run time keeps this lazer focused.
This is one of the winners of this year's Tribeca and is recommended.
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