Mouth to Mouth

Name: Mouth to Mouth
Director: Alison Murray
Released: 2005

Synopsis

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.

70
L.A. Weekly
A rough but boldly imaginative first feature by British-Canadian writer-director Alison Murray.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus.
63
TV Guide Magazine
Canadian-born choreographer Alison Murray draws on her own experiences as a 15-year-old runaway living in squats and on the streets, in her feature-filmmaking debut, which is a clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.
50
Variety
Emerges an uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.
50
Village Voice
Murray's story has the no-holds-barred look and feel of a '70s movie, but her digressions into modern dance are a tad unwelcome.
50
New York Post
Filmmaker Alison Murray drew on her own experiences, but Mouth to Mouth would have benefited from more focus and fewer dance sequences.
50
New York Daily News
Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
40
Los Angeles Times
As the film progresses, however, Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.