For this Sundance moviegoer, Monday was a day of stark contrast.
Joey Lauren Adams, who wrote and directed "Come Early Morning," about a Southern woman's poor relationships with men, said at a Q&A follwing the Salt Lake City screening that her movie took five years from writing to finished product (which only happened two weeks before Sundance began!)
But "Subject Two," a reimagined version of the Frankenstein story, was a three-month project, according to writer/director Philip Chidel. It was shot in three weeks on top of Colorado's Aspen Mountain, in a "hut" with no running water or indoor plumbing.
Another major difference between the two, which probably helps explain the long/short of it: Adams had trouble getting funding; Chidel pretty much had no funding.
- Anne Wilson