Buddy Boy has been somewhat forgotten over the years, but it's worthy of a look for art film fans.
A stuttering anti-social man named Francis spends his days working at a photo shop and caring for his invalid mother, but when he becomes obsessed with the neighbor he spies across the street, his life begins to make a change for the surreal and nightmarish.
While the performances are strong all around and the visuals are interesting, Buddy Boy can be a bit of a slog to get through with its slow pacing and nonsensical plotting. It's somewhere between kitchen sink melodrama and David Lynch mind bender and it doesn't always balance it as well as it should.
Things get stranger as the film goes along, but it leads to a bizarre, anti-climactic conclusion that'll leave most viewers with more questions than answers.
A stuttering anti-social man named Francis spends his days working at a photo shop and caring for his invalid mother, but when he becomes obsessed with the neighbor he spies across the street, his life begins to make a change for the surreal and nightmarish.
While the performances are strong all around and the visuals are interesting, Buddy Boy can be a bit of a slog to get through with its slow pacing and nonsensical plotting. It's somewhere between kitchen sink melodrama and David Lynch mind bender and it doesn't always balance it as well as it should.
Things get stranger as the film goes along, but it leads to a bizarre, anti-climactic conclusion that'll leave most viewers with more questions than answers.