Mumblecore, in case you missed the seventy majillion articles about it in all the smart magazines, is the hot new thing in the indie film biz, and South By Southwest is no exception. Love it or loathe it, it's the mode of the moment, and probably half the movies I saw over the last few days could be jammed into that category with a minimum of injury. For those blessedly unfamiliar with mumblecore, it involves low budgets and a bunch of attractive but poorly dressed young white people who spend a great deal of time pouting because they are emotionally paralyzed and cannot communicate with each other. I'm sure you can imagine how exciting this all is. With The Lost Coast, writer/director Gabriel Fleming has presented us with a colossal leap forward in this boundlessly underperforming genre: the gay mumblecore movie!
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