In the tradition of THE 400 BLOWS and OVER THE EDGE comes this striking independent film from newcomer Goldberger. Daugherty delivers a starmaking performance as Ryan Kazinski, a juvenile delinquent in Ft. Meyers, Florida, who escapes his detention center and floats around the city, trying to find enough money to get him on a bus to Colorado. Blending experimental filmmaking techniques with a traditionally unfolding narrative, Goldberger's award-winning debut is a solid, mature effort.
Ryan Kazinski (Daugherty) is a sixteen-year-old youth who has landed himself in a South Florida juvenile detention center. With only a month left before his pardon, a fight breaks out while he is picking up trash on the side of a highway, and he flees the scene. Penniless, he floats around Ft. Meyers for the next twenty-four hours, encountering a bizarre cast of characters in the process. He visits his brother at home, sharing with him his plan of taking a bus to Denver to reunite with their mother. Realizing he doesn't have the money to leave town, he becomes more desperate, stealing the gun of a woman who picked him up on the side of the road. A final act of redemption, stealing a dog from an animal shelter and dropping it off at his brother's, exposes him to the authorities, triggering one final attempt at escaping.
DVD Features:
Full Frame - 1.33
Director of Photography
Jesse Rosen: Director of Photography
Review 1:
"...TRANS is exactly the sort of smallish, idiosyncratically personal movie that belongs in the arthouse loop....It will mesmerize..."
Source: Film Comment
p.4-6 01/01/2000
Review 2:
"...Atmospheric....TRANS remains a sensitive evocation of youthful turmoil..."
Source: New York Times
p.E24 01/07/2000
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