Clean, Shaven

Clean, Shaven
by Lodge Kerrigan

Clean, Shaven
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Actor: Alice Levitt, Jennifer MacDonald (II), Megan Owen, Molly Castelloe, Peter Greene
Director: Lodge Kerrigan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber

DVD Reviews of Clean, Shaven

DVD Review: Mulit-Layered and Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars

This indie film about a schizophrenic man just released from a mental institution who goes looking for his daughter is powerful and raises multiple issues - that of our treatment of the mentally ill, of adopted children and the bonds they have with their absent biological parents, and how our perceptions drive us to commit brutal acts. Peter Greene is astounding as the protagonist, who suffers daily the torments of his condition, and his effort to locate his missing (to him) daughter is almost superhuman. This is a movie that will stay with you for a long, long time.

DVD Review: Mildly disturbing
Summary: 4 Stars

A real invitation to what we the general public, perceive to be going on in the mind of a mentally disturbed person. Brilliantly directed and wise acting make this a piece of intriguing movie mastery. Interesingly enough to have a tenderness in the plot.

DVD Review: Extraordinary
Summary: 5 Stars

I was already fascinated with Peter Greene, so in checking out his filmography I came across this film. It sounded really good, so I decided to buy it, since many of his films are hard to come by in a video store. Needless to say I was blown away by this film itself and even more so by Peter Greene. He definetely made the film. I can't understand why he hasn't been in more roles such as this. He's definetely an underappreciated actor. The film haunted me...I thought about it and dreamed about it all night...which kept me from really sleeping...it just had such a profound effect on me. It really got inside my head. The fact it doesn't really say for sure that he is/isn't a killer...but the ending sequence made me believe he wasn't...I just wanted to give him a bug hug. Such a sad/intense film. I'm really glad I bought it.

DVD Review: Intense 79 minutes
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is very intense and 79 minutes is about what I could take of it! We follow Peter (played by Peter Greene), a man with some kind of schizophrenia and parts of the film is how he sees the world. We are given very few explanations and the plot contains some interesting ambiguities. Clean, shaven is more about the audiovisual than about narrative and/or social criticism. Through the film we hear voices like an untuned radio, sometimes in the scene and sometimes it is inside Peter's head. Clean, shaven also contains a few quite nasty strong scenes (a corpse in close up, Peter trying to cut of his nail etc) that sensitive viewers should be prepared for. Even though the film is set in strange and ugly milieus like desolate industrial areas and shabby mansions it also contains a kind of beauty or at least it's own special aesthetics. Also, the actors are excellent, especially Peter Greene who manages to look really tormented throughout the movie.

The Criterion edition also contains some extras like commentary and a video essay. I'm really glad I have seen this special movie. Recommended to everyone interested in cinema, especially american independent!

DVD Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is truly exceptional and unique on all fronts. A masterpiece. Peter Greene seems to be genious in the role.

Description of Clean, Shaven

A story of a schizophrenic man's desperate search for his young daughter. Scene Access, Interactive Menus, Filmographies, Original Theatrical Trailer
Amidst a glut of more conventional independent films in the mid-1990s, Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven signaled the arrival of a gifted filmmaker with a singular vision. A controversial sensation on the film festival circuit when released in 1994, this riveting first feature (filmed over a two-year period on a meager budget of $60,000) is perhaps the first film to authentically convey the subjective experience of schizophrenia. This all-too-common mental illness essentially serves as a substitute for plot; instead of telling a conventional story of a murder investigation, Kerrigan leaves crucial details ambiguous as he focuses on the tormented existence of a young man named Peter (played by Peter Greene in a brave debut performance) who may or may not have brutally killed a young girl in one of the film's early scenes. His world--or rather, the world as perceived by his dysfunctional brain--is metaphorically compared to the random tuning of a radio, as schizophrenia prevents Peter from forming a cohesive reality out of the sights and sounds that constantly invade his consciousness. To express this fractured perception in cinematic terms, Kerrigan uses a truly extraordinary soundtrack--worthy of comparison to David Lynch's Eraserhead--that's frequently divorced from the visuals, emphasizing the disorienting symptoms of Peter's illness. The effect is both fascinating and deeply disturbing, especially in a notorious scene (definitely not for the squeamish) in which Peter removes one of his fingernails for reasons best left for viewers to discover. It's one of the creepiest, most unsettling moments in the history of American independent cinema, but it's also one of the things that makes Clean, Shaven a timeless and sensitively compassionate study of a condition that's mysterious and frequently misunderstood. A full decade later, Kerrigan would return to the subject of mental illness with his critically acclaimed film Keane, and David Cronenberg's Spider covers similar territory with equally unsettling results. --Jeff Shannon

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