Blu-ray Review – The Sweet East

A longtime cinematographer, Sean Price Williams is best known for his work with Alex Ross Perry, favoring unsteady imagery for indie offerings about emotional breakdowns. He takes on a greater professional challenge with "The Sweet East," accepting directorial duties on the endeavor, working with screenwriter Nick Pinkerton on a picaresque concerning a teenage girl and her quest to escape her everyday life, heading through a series of misadventures with potentially predatory people. "The Sweet East" is a free-flowing viewing experience suited to Williams's artistic interests, and he brings a loose energy to the effort, which attempts to swing through various moods with humor and oddity. It's not a particularly satisfying picture, but it does have appealing moments of strangeness to keep it interesting. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com