[GREENER GRASS screens Saturday January 18th
at 9:50 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Everyone in the pastel world of GREENER GRASS seems
blandly happy, but (shocker) there’s a darkness underneath. Hollywood has given
us similar visions of twisted suburbia in films like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS,
THE BURBS, and BLUE VELVET. But writers/directors Jocelyn DeBoer
and Dawn Luebbe distinguish their film with a comically surreal flavor of their
own. “Jokes” like having housewife Jill (DeBoer) offer up her new baby to fellow
soccer mom Lisa (Luebbe) as though it were simply good manners to do so display
a level of matter of fact weirdness that recalls Luis Bunuel.
