Diamond Tongues

Diamond Tongues
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Directed by	Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson
Produced by	Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson, Jason Charters, Sarah Haywood, Ari Lantos, Daniel Bekerman, Brendan Canning, Mark Musselman, Liam Romalis
Screenplay by	Pavan Moondi
Music by	Brendan Canning, Ohad Benchetrit[1]
Cinematography	Peter Dreimanis
Edited by	Pavan Moondi
Running time	100 mins
Country	Canada
Language	English

Diamond Tongues is a 2015 Canadian comedy drama film directed by Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson,^[2] written by Pavan Moondi and produced by Sarah Haywood, Brian Robertson and Pavan Moondi.

Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.^[3]

The film stars Leah Fay, who is the co-lead vocalist in the band July Talk. Fay's July Talk bandmate Peter Dreimanis served as the film's cinematographer, which also features an original score composed by Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning and Do Make Say Think's Ohad Benchetrit.^[4]

Diamond Tongues premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 25, 2015.^[5] The film received its Canadian premiere at the Bell Lightbox on August 7, 2015.^[6]

Diamond Tongues is distributed by Mongrel Media in Canada and Factory 25 in the rest of the world.^[7]

DIAMOND TONGUES is a dramatic comedy about insecurity, uncertainty, unhealthy competition, and just about everything else between the lines.^[8]

Cast

Comment

Frank, who was Hollywood reporter wrote:"That she nonetheless emerges as all too relatable is a credit to Moondi's astute screenplay and the nerve-rattling performance by its lead performer, here making an auspicious acting debut." (Scheck, August 12, 2015)^[9]

Ben represented New York Times wrote:"Ms. Goldstein gives a performance that requires her to swing between disarming and loathsome. She demonstrates impressive skill in slowly peeling away her character's charm."(Kenigsberg, Feb 18th, 2016)^[10]

Overview

Ben Kenigsberg commented on ‘New York Times’ newspaper, "Diamond Tongues" is a sweet and slashing comedy from Canada. The film took its scenes in Toronto (Kenigsberg 2016). It is a good chance for a musician and performance artist Leah Goldstein in her first movie. As Edith, an actress is an aspiring person who seems blind to her deficits and personal flaws. Ms. Goldstein gives a performance that allows her to swing between pleasing and offensive. One comment that is really accurate "[Leah Goldstein] demonstrates impressive skill in slowly peeling away her character’s charm". Diamond tongues also swing between protagonist’s friend tries to manage her dream and Edith is taken in by an acting teacher, which stands for light and dark.

"Diamond Tongues" may conclude as a softer-hearted film, although there are many cynical scenes in the film. Furthermore, it has an obvious affection for Toronto cultural scene and the actress Ms. Goldstein. She also has something to fall back on the music doesn’t work, but she does a really good job which carries entire the movie well. Thus, on January 19, 2016, Leah Goldstein was nominated for ‘Best Actress at the Canadian Screen Awards’.^[11]

The movie works both as a character study and an exercise in cringe comedy as Norman Wilner said (Wilner, 2015). The film can conclude as "contempt and envy reign and the threat of disaster closely follows". The audience can find that the movie really pays attention to details, which means a director is a careful person.^[12]

References

External links

• Official website
• Diamond Tongues on IMDb
• Diamond Tongues at Rotten Tomatoes
• Diamond Tongues at Metacritic